Goin back to the Future??

Joey

Joey

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At the mighty age of 15 I was transposed from a largish city and seaport to a small peaceful village - fortunately full of children my age brought about by a big co. offering houses and jobs - you got paid for the job and paid a smallish rent - front and back garden 3 bedrooms etc. It was idyllic in many ways - new friends for the asking ; clean healthy air and girls too!!

For varied reasons I packed a lot of activities into 3/4 yr and then left for pastures anew. My sister had left ; brother too ; Pa had died youngish unfortunately and dear dear Ma was left to live in this lovely village - a widow and knowing Ma feeling totally neglected by her entire family. I'd seen her one more time and then set sail for Oz and that was it?

There is of course the proverbial website through which we can try to catch up with the past and chat to our old school chums etc - but of course it's just a game we play and very few ever go back or catch up - many have died over those intervening years.

And yet there seems to be this urge in some of us to do just that - go back and re-capture our youth - I suppose I do it vicariously in using the website. But in reality the people I knew become fewer and fewer and I am just looking down pipe dreams!! - I have almost stopped doing it - will I ever completely - not sure about that - the past seemed to clutch at me sometimes??
 

Two days ago I was at someone's house fixing something , he is in his 40's and he was telling me he missed his days in the Navy and I asked him was he sure about that or he missed the age ?

It is normal for every human being to reflect , miss things about the past , nothing wrong with that . I used to be able to do cartwheels and real cartwheels not those half hearted ones .

Later going to Walmart I would love to do them while going down the isles , ahhhhh who knows maybe I'll give it a whirl but either way there is not a single human who does not reflect
 
I think it is a little more complex though; I sometimes look back and consider that if I had had behaved in that way ; or made a different decision - or been less selfish then my life story would be different - it can be a sorta psychological self-analysis - reflections of how you thought; treated others ; etc etc - and then to the here and now - we have arrived through a process of all of that - making mistakes ; mistreating others ; or the opposite of course. or it can be just as simple as reading your favorite diary over and over again - or a self-life story you may have written with pics??
 

It's all those regrets that keep gnawing away at me!! - and did anyway ever read the account of what happens when we get to the waiting area in heaven - there's no waiting in hell! - some angelic being takes you to a largish horizontal tv/dvd thingy - and you sit there and watch you life play out - fun and games?? - or tears and sorrows??
 
smiley said:
It's all those regrets that keep gnawing away at me!! - and did anyway ever read the account of what happens when we get to the waiting area in heaven - there's no waiting in hell! - some angelic being takes you to a largish horizontal tv/dvd thingy - and you sit there and watch you life play out - fun and games?? - or tears and sorrows??
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''
As I returned across the fields I'd known
I recognized the walls that I'd once made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid''

Sting
 
"I've been into the Greek and Hebrew and can tell you that hell is the grave. The word was rarely found in any of the early manuscripts before the 11th century. It was added to scare people into conversion. Today's bible is corrupt and has been badly distorted over the years." muckah

ah you do raise an interesting question - welcome - yes there did seem to be a lot of scaring going on - particularly on King Henry's part? the more you think of it the more plausible it beomes? care to expand on that??
 
A common topic that everyone at my town’s senior citizens center eagerly reminisces about are their childhood travels and adventures with their parents; to the seashore, camping in the woods, trans-Atlantic voyages, tours of European cities, cross country trips and visits to National Parks.

Me, I traveled every summer as a teen by climbing into and riding aboard empty boxcars that were leaving the town railway yards, destination unknown, sometimes with a couple of talkative hobos who told incredible stories.

I enjoyed those adventures; seeing farmlands, big cities, small towns, factories and feeling the wind in my hair.

Of all the things I’ve done in life I really enjoy reminiscing about those adventures that never even cost a single penny.
 
MaddHollander said:
A common topic that everyone at my town’s senior citizens center eagerly reminisces about are their childhood travels and adventures with their parents; to the seashore, camping in the woods, trans-Atlantic voyages, tours of European cities, cross country trips and visits to National Parks.

Me, I traveled every summer as a teen by climbing into and riding aboard empty boxcars that were leaving the town railway yards, destination unknown, sometimes with a couple of talkative hobos who told incredible stories.

I enjoyed those adventures; seeing farmlands, big cities, small towns, factories and feeling the wind in my hair.

Of all the things I’ve done in life I really enjoy reminiscing about those adventures that never even cost a single penny.
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and I thought it only happened on the yankee fillums!
 
MaddHollander said:
A common topic that everyone at my town’s senior citizens center eagerly reminisces about are their childhood travels and adventures with their parents; to the seashore, camping in the woods, trans-Atlantic voyages, tours of European cities, cross country trips and visits to National Parks.

Me, I traveled every summer as a teen by climbing into and riding aboard empty boxcars that were leaving the town railway yards, destination unknown, sometimes with a couple of talkative hobos who told incredible stories.

I enjoyed those adventures; seeing farmlands, big cities, small towns, factories and feeling the wind in my hair.

Of all the things I’ve done in life I really enjoy reminiscing about those adventures that never even cost a single penny.
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Nostalgia conjures up the good, the bad and the ugly. Regrets over mistakes? Yes, but they are really lessons learned. At least, we dearly hope so. I often think of the music from when I was a toddler to even today. Our house was always filled with music and good books to read. Or some were not so good after all. lol.
 
Lewkat said:
Nostalgia conjures up the good, the bad and the ugly. Regrets over mistakes? Yes, but they are really lessons learned. At least, we dearly hope so. I often think of the music from when I was a toddler to even today. Our house was always filled with music and good books to read. Or some were not so good after all. lol.
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I can tell you are an educated woman , you can tell I am not an educated man , lol BUT I read , still do .

At 9 pm I plan to read " Where's Waldo " volumes 1 and 2 .

Lol I'm kidding ( I laugh at my own nonsense ) . I'm actually reading J. R. R. Tolkien: The Children of Húrin and will finish it tonight .
 
Joey said:
At the mighty age of 15 I was transposed from a largish city and seaport to a small peaceful village - fortunately full of children my age brought about by a big co. offering houses and jobs - you got paid for the job and paid a smallish rent - front and back garden 3 bedrooms etc. It was idyllic in many ways - new friends for the asking ; clean healthy air and girls too!!

For varied reasons I packed a lot of activities into 3/4 yr and then left for pastures anew. My sister had left ; brother too ; Pa had died youngish unfortunately and dear dear Ma was left to live in this lovely village - a widow and knowing Ma feeling totally neglected by her entire family. I'd seen her one more time and then set sail for Oz and that was it?

There is of course the proverbial website through which we can try to catch up with the past and chat to our old school chums etc - but of course it's just a game we play and very few ever go back or catch up - many have died over those intervening years.

And yet there seems to be this urge in some of us to do just that - go back and re-capture our youth - I suppose I do it vicariously in using the website. But in reality the people I knew become fewer and fewer and I am just looking down pipe dreams!! - I have almost stopped doing it - will I ever completely - not sure about that - the past seemed to clutch at me sometimes??
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We cannot travel back in time to change the past.
Do not fret about the past. Make the most of today.

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on:
nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it".
The Rubyaiet of Omah Khayyam
 
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