I have "I Capture the Castle" to thank for the way I use the word "capture." Also, at the end, I mean, I'm glad to participate in a daily conversation... not that I'm actually talking every day.
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Thursday
said...
I enjoy writing things down that I want to be sure to remember, and then looking back on them is fun too, or . . . sometimes not fun, but Good. I think that if we (I mean I) spend too much time recording, or recalling . . . the time can be wasted, and the moment I had to experience at that time is gone.
I'm not really sure we need a measuring stick . . . I think that . . . you either know something is important to record or remember . . . or you don't. And I can't say that we always know what is going to be important in the future because we don't, but . . . I don't know if a measuring stick would really be useful.
Whoa, no way, I was totally going to blog about a similar idea yesterday, I feel the satisfaction of hearing you talk about something I was thinking about too! :D
I, am obsessed with remembering. Everything. Because I don't process things until far after they've happened, "capturing" experiences is the best way for me to suck such experiences of their lessons and significance. I'm /still/ discovering moments that changed me, milestones of life, from years and years ago that are significant to now even though they were mostly meaningless to me then.
Yes, I think you're completely accurate about that pressure to record, it almost takes away from the effectiveness of the memory if it was formed under duress of its own purpose! But, I like preserving memories, I don't find pressure often, except when God's rocked my foundations . . . it makes me desperate to capture the revelation . . . but in Him we are pressing forward!
Feelings, emotions, I'm not sure it's possible to forget those. I have no way of proving it, I guess, but it seems like sadness or hate or joy, once felt can't be forgotten, things so innate about existing. I don't bother to try and remember those things as much, because they spring to recollection without effort.
One of the things I love best, is that moment when you remember something for the first time -- the moment of the initial recollection, it's beautiful, even if the memory itself is ugly.
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So smiley today! [Thanks for the emotional sunlight. :)]
Hayley, I like everything you had to say. (When I read your comment yesterday, I had thought I wanted to write out a long response to it, but I don't have much to say.)
Thursday, I think you're right... a measuring stick wouldn't do much good.
A Year Of Questions is a project begun on March 22, 2010, by seven teens who want to be better at asking questions and articulating answers. This blog exists to make it easier to discuss these questions (because a 500 character limit on YouTube comments is rather limiting). Enjoy!
4 comments:
I enjoy writing things down that I want to be sure to remember, and then looking back on them is fun too, or . . . sometimes not fun, but Good. I think that if we (I mean I) spend too much time recording, or recalling . . . the time can be wasted, and the moment I had to experience at that time is gone.
I'm not really sure we need a measuring stick . . . I think that . . . you either know something is important to record or remember . . . or you don't. And I can't say that we always know what is going to be important in the future because we don't, but . . . I don't know if a measuring stick would really be useful.
Whoa, no way, I was totally going to blog about a similar idea yesterday, I feel the satisfaction of hearing you talk about something I was thinking about too! :D
I, am obsessed with remembering. Everything. Because I don't process things until far after they've happened, "capturing" experiences is the best way for me to suck such experiences of their lessons and significance. I'm /still/ discovering moments that changed me, milestones of life, from years and years ago that are significant to now even though they were mostly meaningless to me then.
Yes, I think you're completely accurate about that pressure to record, it almost takes away from the effectiveness of the memory if it was formed under duress of its own purpose! But, I like preserving memories, I don't find pressure often, except when God's rocked my foundations . . . it makes me desperate to capture the revelation . . . but in Him we are pressing forward!
Feelings, emotions, I'm not sure it's possible to forget those. I have no way of proving it, I guess, but it seems like sadness or hate or joy, once felt can't be forgotten, things so innate about existing. I don't bother to try and remember those things as much, because they spring to recollection without effort.
One of the things I love best, is that moment when you remember something for the first time -- the moment of the initial recollection, it's beautiful, even if the memory itself is ugly.
[/assorted semi-related thoughts]
So smiley today! [Thanks for the emotional sunlight. :)]
Hayley, I like everything you had to say. (When I read your comment yesterday, I had thought I wanted to write out a long response to it, but I don't have much to say.)
Thursday, I think you're right... a measuring stick wouldn't do much good.
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