Welcome to Thoughtful Thursday!
This week I would like to discuss and answer these questions: if you were given an opportunity what historical period would you like to visit/live in? Do you think you would fit in better then than now? If yes why? Why people tend to think that the life was better/easier/more interesting in the past? Do you agree with them?
Now some quotes concerning this topic:
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. (Anonymous)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell (1903-1950)
If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way (Anonymous)
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
I would love to know your thoughts!
I don't remember what I read. I'm now in the present. ;)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, good quotes. I remember a discussion with an author once. We talked about balancing the past, present, and future and to put them in the proper context. So interesting to see how people just can't get that concept.
I try to live in the present but sometimes I find myself thinking I would rather live in another era...then I remind myself the plight of women during that particular era and usually I happily return to my present time ;).
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Melissa - it's always lovely to see you here!
I would love to go back, and I sure know it wouldn't be easier. It would be hard and awful, I would miss medicin, painkillers, and all the rest. But still, I would love to visit the dirty Middle Ages and the regency era (only cos of the dresses ;)
ReplyDeleteMy very choices Blodeuedd - thanks for your comment! Regency...lovely period!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to visit any number of historical periods, but the key word is visit, for a very short time only, I wouldn't want to live in anything other than the present - but I would love to see for myself any era I'm currently reading about. Buddha is right, live in the now, constantly brooding on the past or wishing for the future is not good, now is the only time that you can change.
ReplyDeleteLove the kitty!
The kitty is visiting too; I thought you might enjoy its curious face! Unfortunately it isn't mine! Thanks for your comment Tracy!
ReplyDeleteI would like to visit the time of Adam and Eve I think. I would want to see where it all began. I would really enjoy learning about proto-culture so to speak. Not to mention I'd like to see what people looked like back then. Since everyone descended from Adam and Eve, I guess there wouldn't be much racial distinction right?
ReplyDeleteI too would only want to visit. It wasn't always bad in the Middle Ages or Roman Timez but I did notice that nobody at the Society For Creative Anachronism was a peasant.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking lately about people looking up persons from their past on Facebook. It is a symptom of being unhappy in the present.
The Society For Creative Anachronism ? I MUST apply!
ReplyDeleteBrooke visiting the first pair of people would be incredibly fascinating! I've always wondered about the colour of their skin...
The Red Witch being a peasant was hardly ever a good thing.