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I like a poem by the poet Proust………….. What I like about it is the idea of “seeing differently”. The poem suggests that you can see new places, new lands, but that you can see them in a different way. Maybe what we would see, if we could see differently, is more than new places. We might see all the places and things that we have seen before but “ in a new way”.
It is like this when we look back. Experiences seem difference. Looking back takes all your experiences with you. It filters what you saw before..
It is like going through life is a trip of course. The longer it lasts the more you discover about where you have been.
Then again what if we could go back. Really go back. What or where would be the best choice as to where to go or who to be with? What if you could go back and be with your best friend when you were both young and see together with new eyes. All things would seem different. Or the same.
The real voyage of discovery consists
Not in seeking new lands but in seeing
with new eyes……………Proust
2 comments:
Cute pic!
We are on a similar page today, but different. I just finished this book tonight. I actually read it from cover to cover without putting it down. (VERY unusual for me) For One More Day, by Mitch Albom. Parts of it weren't easy to read.
This is where the similar but different part comes in. If you could go back and "fix" anything what would it be?
To go back and spend that time would be a precious gift. But above all, the gift would be to acknowledge and forgive. My "aha" moment was the "forgiving myself" part. People are people. The past is what it was. Our interpretation, with new eyes and experience, is what changes.
This was a great blog today, with great and amazing timing.
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