My brain is over worked and I am tired.
The past will never be the present, but the present will set the future!
Just a thoughts from an old man who wishes for things to change back.
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Monday Moaning: Past Present!
I know it all sound so idealogical soon as one might read this title. But the reality might be different as there are many views or opinions from how we see it. And going straight into the arena and put myself out there. We have been looking at it in a wrong way.
The past is something that has already happened and is our basic knowledge from which we move forward. It is a base line we follow but deviate from every single day as we all have a feeling that we do not want to come to a standstill and keep a foot in the past. We look back as if it is garbage that has been thrown away or something we do not want to go back to.
As we gotten smarter, though that is something that can be argued about just the same, we like to think we know better and are doing better in this present. And I have once said that the past is the present for the future.
But in what way is that true if we leave it for what it is. Think about the past as something to forget and create new basics. In reality though we seem to be adding layers upon layers and confusing ourselves to where some idea came from.
No, this is not to say we should just erase our past as it is what made us what we are today. Right or wrong we moved on but are afraid to commit our mistakes and turn back time if it was asked of us. Instead we force ourselves forward and are most likely bound to be making mistakes in the process.
True that the past is not the present and never will be but it was a foot print left from which was set in motion a change.
So what is the past to you?
Is it old and dusty and full of nonsense, or can we still learn from it? Is everything from that time really so bad as we say these days or is it our conscious not wanting to admit a wrong.
The past is the present in a way it was given to us faults and all the good, it does however depends how we use it. Toy with it like a spoilt brad for a minute and then throwing it away as boring. Would you be the boy or girl keeping it safe as a treasure only to look at it when things go wrong. Or the nerd who would dissect learn and also see that is wasn’t all bad and that the bad was changed or change it for the better.
What’s more is that the future can’t give you any certainties that the past holds.
How come we are looking away when we make a mistake and simply put it off as the past. And when things go right it is the present.
Fickle as we are we stare back at our past and rethink our present in the hope to change the future.
And it becomes funnier when we would admit that something was done better in the past but we come up with arguments that we should still change it. That we as a community can’t and should not run back to something that worked in the past.
Who would come up with things like that?
The past can be perfectly implemented into our present day if we so truly want it. It is not as if we are going back in time, we just adept our daily lives to something that worked in the past. For some reason or another we are not able to and be all full of air and bright ideas and say we are smarter than our ancestors.
How one looks back at the past is for each and everyone of us different.
Our blueprints may differ but no one dares to look at them and start up a conversation.
The best example is the education and health care in this country. How it got worse over time through ideas that never seemed to work. And while people say we should go back to how it was, no one is wiling to admit defeat and there wrong. Second there is not a soul who is wiling to take the blame.
Is the past something to have come back?
Not everything was as great as it sounds by our grandparents, but we should not disregard them as ancient and dumb ideas. Or thoughts that could never work here and now.
In the end even the past does not old all the answer for today, and it is on those issues we need the most answers if we want to have a fighting change for a future. Improving is one thing, holding on to something strong or things that work perfectly most certainly is not wrong but we are not holding on to it often enough.
This is a rambling of an old man, sure enough but I am pretty sure my old values with some adaptations are not old fashioned to say the least but are looked at is if I am from the stone age. IN a time where community and society was a common good we are now fighting to get it back while innovations push us another way.
The past is our present we kept hidden on the attic without ever taking a good look at it. Our eyes set on the future while we stumble across our present achievements.
What will become of our future if we only see what might be but never what is or was.
Best Wishes
Ranting crow
Monday Moaning: History Refurbished!
I think the title is just to funny and may have your brains already trying to figure it out and even come up with some amazing ideas of what it could mean.
The truth is quite simple when you hear the moan I came up with this week. It is something I may have addressed in other ways before but after a talk with some elderly ladies in my Nanna’s nursing home and great laughs olden times relived have shed light on the ideas we uphold as new and experimental or even revolutionary.
Mind you that the ladies may not have the greatest of memories left, they still were able to smile when others recognized their stories.
This generation of youngsters think they hold all the knowledge when it comes to changing the world. Often enough call the older generations as the bad guys for ruining the planet. And they may have a point in some ways as we did industrialize way to much, not to mention we are still doing so even with their new ideas.
Older people had to build a completely new world if you think about how divided the world was after the wars. During the wars things started changing in rapid speeds and only after the second world war did we had time to rebuild for a better future no matter how bad it was.
Time were definitely changing and new inventions may have ruined our thought process and never thought of the possible negative outcome.
Enough of this rant though and back to the older people, their lives of when they were younger and watching the world being rebuild. Together with the refurbished ideas of the new era.
So one of them is the simplest and is about the biological hype that is going on. How everything has to be grown naturally and biological, not to mention environment friendly.
Just the mentioned to my Nanna makes her angry in a way. It is for one about the prices asked and the days they ate from the fields. That veggies were very much season produce and with smaller grocery shops wide spread and always fresh.
This is unlike the times we have now where food comes from over productive greenhouses to feed the large population while people are still starving elsewhere. Though that may be another moan for a different Monday. Fact still is that the expensive greens these days were normal veggies in their younger years. And even in my younger years, and I am not that old.
Is this not something we done and threw away and introduced as a new idea and must for this century.
Plastic is the biggest polluter we have ever created but it was new and innovative the time it was introduced. And this newer generation may have a point we need to change that and discard plastic bags from shops. True enough it is what is happening. In the mean time paper, linen or hemp bags are being produced again, since they are environmental friendly.
Though did you know that before all those plastic bags we had paper bags? Those you still used in commercials or films. Inconvenient was the lack of a handle. So they were not so good to carry around. Yet we threw them away for plastic. Then there are the stories of the older people.
How they wrapped beans or other veggies in newspapers when you wondered the market. In those times it was normal to RECYCLE newspapers for this. After that they were used to light the fires.
Yes there is stuff to learn from these old brains and it is sad we are proudly giving ourselves pads on the back for our revolutionary ideas.
Times are changing and though it is a good thing we should not forget how we got here and see the good things our seniors have done. Because even now we the new generation are most likely introducing things that will harm a future.
We speak up on how we need to change and come out of our homes and connect to people. It is just in our nature and thanks to new gadgets we learn the newest of generations to communicate through screens only.
This is a personal observation, but in my neighbourhood where old people still rent the homes is or rather was a sense of community and slowly while they are been going to nursing homes or dying of old age the homes are being sold to young and very high educated people. And the doors stay shut. Hardly any communication or interaction with any of their neighbours.
One would be hearing old stories where people would just walk next door, pull a string and enter without thinking for a cup of tea and a talk. Sidewalks filled with people interacting and discussing, some working and helping with chores. And how these old people if living on their own still can’t go to their neighbour for a cup of sugar. The look on their faces, or so the story goes is just surprised. Sugar or salt is not something they have in bulk as I still do and other than that the other reaction is how they would repay them? Of course it is about money again.
We talk about understanding and helping our fellow human beings but for some reason we always need to think about what there is in it for ourselves. Selfishness is something that has gone as well.
I miss the old days and if you think they were ancient, the most of these stories above are no older than a 50 years. Yes only a little over 50 years ago we were still being responsible and a real community. Half a century is all it took to understand that we need to be like those times again.
It makes ‘old times’ or the ‘when I was younger’ seem closer all of a sudden then the latest generation likes to think.
Internet is only like what 40 years old? Just like the mobile or car phone. Not to mention a television is but close to a century old. Before all this people gathered in churches and squares or at home to talk or relay the news.
Times are changing as we refurbish the old and tried and call them new.
There are so much more funny stories and things that sound better than they are now but these are all on more personal level and closer to a home. Just think coffee. Grounded freshly in a shop. It is one of the new trends just like tea. Soap was just the same or sugar by the ounces since they did the shopping daily just to be outside and find some interaction. And nowadays we see health shops, grocery shops and small supers pop up everywhere, smaller more user friendly, green/biological and with better service. Oh how good the old days must have been right?
Best Wishes
Ranting Crow
Here is one to keep it close to my moan.
The present is an echo from the past!
Today everything we do has been prepared in the past and as if by way of have to be, we also keep repeating ourselves. Our mistakes, And even fashion. Even today we are creating echoes to be heard later. Will they be good ones or will they hear us having done/said something wrong.
Monday Moaning: Happy Ego!
Okay the title this week might be a bit over the top but it does not stop me from using it. After all it is titles and fat pressed headlines like that that draw our attention. Though these days that might not all be true anymore.
In the past few weeks, months even, I have lost myself and started distancing from the world around me. I felt like rebelling to today’s happy-go-lucky idea that is being pushed upon us. Or maybe it is just my stupid mind playing tricks with me.
Either way I did notice things that felt peculiar and strange. Complete opposites next to each other and we only seem to see one of them.
Sure enough pay attention and you do start to see things, sometimes even things that aren’t there. But I am pretty sure I am not the only one seeing them as people d talk about them.
The mind is a funny thing as it works with and against us at the very same time. It stops us in our track when we sense danger, it can make us believe things that aren’t real and create an euphoria in an instant.
But what is going on with us?
I know I can be a bit cold hearted, hell as if I care. Though all I am doing is setting a different priority. There are things I do care about but can’t linger over for to long.
One year it has been since the MH17 got shot down. Yes we had a great fantastic memorial day. We all got to feel miserable again. Being reminded of such moment.
Still my mind went like: “What the fuck. Why do I need to be reminded of something like that. Why is the news busy reporting this while kids sit next to their parents at the side walk of a church hoping for a bag of groceries at a local food bank.”
I know it is cruel but we can’t keep wondering in the past. And this is something reported by a news program on TV.
Since there are different kinds of news programs let me say this is the one that used to be, and I do think that way, the best and foremost important news. It is the one, I as a youngster would call the old farts news. And even today it holds that name.
Now I understand that the lives lost in that event are ones that should not have been taken in the first place. But I am not sorry, I can’t be not even for us humans being dumb and stupid. And though I am sad it is not because they got shot. I am sad we think we need to remember the past and forget about today.
Each of us have something to remember in their country. We even remember the fallen of WWII. But they died so we, today, can live in freedom. Not to make us feel down and stupid.
Back to the news. The program is a distinguished one and still the news in the past weekend was about the ending of Ramadan. No I have nothing against it. I am just wondering how that could be news. And important news at that.
Not to mention that the same news talked about the fact we spend more money this year on fireworks. This was January.
Apparently we are doing very well while being in a crisis. After all that is all we do hear. We are doing better and spend more money. Yet the truth is all that fabulous. Sure enough the glass is a little more than half full.
Everywhere I look I see people smiling, talking about the rich and famous and how wonderful it all is. Yes the picture of playful children in a pool catches our eyes better than the headline beside it. ‘more people in debt’.
A small column describing how parents beg to stay in a house but are being evicted from their home with their new born. Next to a big article about the new found agreement with Greece.
It is things like that, that make me sad. We are unable to help those living next door. Pushing more budget cuts on everyone so we can show off how good we are.
The way a headline is written is also something. As it makes you feel relieved it wasn’t you. Which in return gives a sense of being happy even if it is a little. Or the headline that make you feel proud to one of those helpful ones or caring ones.
Ridiculous to think we have become so hard in a sense we almost forget to care about our very own neighbours. Over time we have put up a shell and thought of only ourselves.
The other kind of news we have is the kind I already mentioned. The kind that talks about the rich and famous. How easy they can divorce and remarry and have a new child. How they are looking beautiful in their bathing suit. It gives us dreams and hopes of what we want.
It makes us happy. And smile as it takes us away on that same tropical island.
The sad memorials give us a bad feeling. But the next day when normal life starts we all are happy to be alive.
Still I must be missing something. As everyone is in their own world. Glued to a 6 inch screen with apps that make them feel important and happy. A private world that keeps them occupied and maybe blinded to what is around them. It has become a virtual shell we put around us like a warm blanket.
I for one threw away my smartphone. I had it with that thing. If one wants to contact me it will take a little more effort. If one is truly a friend they will have that time or make time.
Distancing myself may not be an answer, and it sure has its effect on me as I even lost touched with who I am. I am angry and sad. Frustrated that I want to help but do not have the means to help all. Doing what I can to see a person smile makes it worth it but is see so much more.
My mind is in turmoil and for that I even been unable to write my usual stories. I lost them and slowly am trying to find myself again. It may take time but I will make sure to make some great smiling opportunities along the way.
All I do hope is that we can look away from the screen and see the real world for what it is. For what is truly going on. Because our world is bigger than a 6 inch screen. Happening more, than what has happened in the past. It isn’t all hopes and dreams.
It is a world that is kept in the now where we worry about what was and forget about what could/should be.
Best Wishes
Ranting Crow
PS. I know I am bitching but at least it got you thinking.
Ranting Crow 