Changes

Only one thing never changes,
that all things will change.
- Tibetan proverb -

meaning... nothing ever stays the same. The familiar dissolves into history and we're constantly readjusting ourselves in a present which is just as transitory as life itself.

 

It's odd really, we remember a lot of things the way we think they were, but looking back at pictures or sharing recollections, it seems that our memories are just as faulty as we are, things get romanticised, that which was so very important seems now trivial and others which were unobserved and outside the field of attention have come to play a leading role in our lives.

I received a postcard recently. Not a very special one really, but it got me thinking. It was made sometime in the 1950's, of the train station I go to every workday morning to catch the train.

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It dawned on me that the photo, as well as having being made some 50 years ago, might just as well have depicted something on another planet. On the surface it's so recogniseable and familiar, but the whole mood is totally different. Compare it to the following photo, and decide for yourself which you would prefer.

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Am I getting a bit too nostalgic?

Once in a while, there's a poster that catches my fancy. Sometimes funny, sometimes thought provoking, sometimes sad.

Enough said, methinks...