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We are all going to die. Someday. I've always known this, but a friend of mine had put in something into the mix, something that this entire site is built upon-nostalgia.
This friend of mine, is probably in his 30s or 40s or so. And he said: [In a response to a comment about a song he wrote]
Thanks. It's a lot longer than I thought it would be. But then again, I'm a lot older than I used to be. There's a lot to talk about at this point. I was trying to distill the meaning of what we intend for this film. It's so easy for adults to see kids doing things like they used to and then try to make it about them and what they used to do. That's just a pose. What I've discovered in making this, is that although we like similar things (music, etc.), the kids I've interviewed are doing it with and for their friends and their scenes. And themselves, of course. They're not doing it for me or for us when we were teens back in the 80s.
Nostalgia is a danger, and a dodge. It's how we tend to, eventually, deal with the fact of our own mortality. A lot of people, though, do a lot of work to keep their mortality out of the picture. Denial, rather than acceptance. I will die one day. If I don't my old friends will precede me, and I will be alone... but only if I insist on living in the past instead of the present. I love my old things and ways, but i refuse to turn them into a fetish to protect me from my mortality.
Does that make sense at all?
What does this mean? Are we wasting are time thinking of the past, when every moment counts, shouldn't we be concerned with the present, and ultimately, the future, and furthermore, our demise?
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