I'm a grumpy old man...
Aug. 24th, 2009 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIt's trips like the one to Wild Waves that remind me of how beautiful all human beings are, and how ignorant and blithe we are with that beauty, and how mindlessly we let nature have her brutal way with us in the passage of time.
I heard someone today say that the phrase, "the pursuit of happiness," as it appears in the Declaration of Independence, was a remarkable statement because prior to that, nobody had through of happiness (or even its pursuit) as a viable goal; most people woke up and spent the day just trying not to die. Nowadays, though, we are mired in pursuits that bring us little happiness, and overindulge in the momentary at the expense of the sublime. There are beautiful young men and women in their teens and 20s, and then there is the vast, sad array of angry, sunwasted, out of shape 40 and 50 year olds, and I can't help but wonder what happened, how did they all lose sight of who they were, how strong, how beautiful, how brilliantly they burned once upon a time, and just let it go?
I heard someone today say that the phrase, "the pursuit of happiness," as it appears in the Declaration of Independence, was a remarkable statement because prior to that, nobody had through of happiness (or even its pursuit) as a viable goal; most people woke up and spent the day just trying not to die. Nowadays, though, we are mired in pursuits that bring us little happiness, and overindulge in the momentary at the expense of the sublime. There are beautiful young men and women in their teens and 20s, and then there is the vast, sad array of angry, sunwasted, out of shape 40 and 50 year olds, and I can't help but wonder what happened, how did they all lose sight of who they were, how strong, how beautiful, how brilliantly they burned once upon a time, and just let it go?
