Love The Cure but watching them makes me feel old. How much we’ve all aged since then. Staying curious to new music, new experiences, new perspectives is a good way to ‘stay young’. At the age of 60 with a 13 year old that certainly keeps me young. Seeing the world through her eyes is always a wonder!
I'm the same age as you an over the past year or so, it's become more apparent to me that I'm in the last half of my life. I can relate to the novelty hypothesis as trying new things seems to keep me younger. Have recently been reading about stoicism and their philosophy seems to add a bit of perspective to things.
Tom, I recently tried to read Heidegger: still struggling but have moved to other philosophers’ interpretations of his thinking. But one quote which I wrote down because of its importance to me was “But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap. They fight, and we inexplicably lose. Memory and time. Always losing one as you go on with the other.” Sobering yet reassuring : we will all experience it, all live it. Thank you for another interesting and engaging piece. Although the snail would have been relocated. No mercy shown, no quarter given, where The Hosta Wars are concerned. It can have at the rose leaves.
Hah! Funny about Heidegger. My attempt at Wittgenstein has failed, again. For him, time was something we measure in seconds but experience in wildly inconsistent bursts. Bored in a meeting? Time feels like an eternity. Binge-watching Netflix, suddenly, it’s 3 am. The lesson he taught me is that time slows up when you endlessly talk about the language to describe it!
Good grief. I would block you myself for your attitude that if someone isn’t perfect, then they are worthless. Tom has done a lot more good than most of us will ever do. Including me. And you.
Love The Cure but watching them makes me feel old. How much we’ve all aged since then. Staying curious to new music, new experiences, new perspectives is a good way to ‘stay young’. At the age of 60 with a 13 year old that certainly keeps me young. Seeing the world through her eyes is always a wonder!
That will keep you young! The great thing about The Cure is that they can still do three hour sets, which slows you up a bit!
The final song on the new album has Robert Smith also asking how it is he got so old, so I think he’d understand.
I think he would. Lovely Robert.
My kitchen fitter did his kitchen and said he is indeed very nice. Also he came in one day and sang in the kitchen. Fitter was chuffed
I'm the same age as you an over the past year or so, it's become more apparent to me that I'm in the last half of my life. I can relate to the novelty hypothesis as trying new things seems to keep me younger. Have recently been reading about stoicism and their philosophy seems to add a bit of perspective to things.
Those stoics lacked agency. I'm much more in the Aristotle school of life!
Tom, I recently tried to read Heidegger: still struggling but have moved to other philosophers’ interpretations of his thinking. But one quote which I wrote down because of its importance to me was “But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap. They fight, and we inexplicably lose. Memory and time. Always losing one as you go on with the other.” Sobering yet reassuring : we will all experience it, all live it. Thank you for another interesting and engaging piece. Although the snail would have been relocated. No mercy shown, no quarter given, where The Hosta Wars are concerned. It can have at the rose leaves.
Hah! Funny about Heidegger. My attempt at Wittgenstein has failed, again. For him, time was something we measure in seconds but experience in wildly inconsistent bursts. Bored in a meeting? Time feels like an eternity. Binge-watching Netflix, suddenly, it’s 3 am. The lesson he taught me is that time slows up when you endlessly talk about the language to describe it!
Good grief. I would block you myself for your attitude that if someone isn’t perfect, then they are worthless. Tom has done a lot more good than most of us will ever do. Including me. And you.
Thank you Denise. I have blocked them because, well, you know....