All of these quotes are over 100 years old. In the case of there is nothing new under the sun, some believe this may even have been said many hundreds of years ago. So much of the world has changed but how much has it really changed.
Sure there are scientific advances, medical advances, and numerous other achievements that many thought were not possible and fantastical but are common now.
However how we interact isn’t really all that different.
Romeo and Juliet rings as true today of how all enveloping in our thoughts love can be in our lives. This was written around 400 years ago and still families still feud for barely discernable reasons and injure those they supposed love the most. And young lovers will risk all to be with the one they love.
Heroic tales, acts of bravery nobility and the list goes on. These are all told today. The told a similar story over 1000 years ago, Beowulf battling the beasts and leading men to battle.
Then too, there are Achilles and Hector heroes on opposite sides, each to his side a god among the living, brought to their deaths ultimately from the simple act of adultery.
Through out time the heads of leaders place on the gates of every city ever known to antiquity because of corruption. Today we place those heads on MSNBC or Fox News but it’s still the point of the spear.
We are still ruled by our emotions at times, we still find petty reasons to argue, fuss and pitch a fit about the most inane things. Things that really matter not at all in the scheme of things but the matter so much in the moment.
Talking with doodle tonight got me thinking about that. I won’t go into the reasons mainly for her privacy but the things we did, our kids are doing, and our parents did before us, and their parents before them. As much as we don’t want to think about it back in the day our great, great, grand parents got all gussied up to go out on the town and cut a rug as did there great, great grand parents before them.
The did the same things, they loved they fought they lived much the way we do now despite the fact that on the surface things in 1790 are so much different than 2010. They really weren’t so far removed. Although we think a generation is so much out of tune to how things used to be. Maybe we just don’t know how to talk across the gap.
In other news
Still freaking cold, not that this is news but it’s a balmy 58 degrees in my house.
Still in other news
I haven’t forgotten about the tree and leaf thing and will get it up
Triple-ly in other news
Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday
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