[august / september 2007 edits] | A topic du jour often leads back to past references, past experiences, past comparisons, dated lessons and all their combined decreasing validities -- this must happen instinctively because logic states that new gets old quick -- therefore a faulty reflex that prevents the absorption of newfound situations, despite repeating patterns. If you believe in history repeating, you might as well just sit back and surrender all control. All easier said than done. I'll be the first to admit that I've done my fair share of serious pattern anticipations and though I might've been correct on several occasions, ultimately it was (is) a matter of simple concequence. This observation isn't a response to all those years of unfruitful calculations either; no matter the results, I find that only good can come out of flexing new muscles. There is much to be learned in observing all our automatisms, to question all that is reflexive... now, how long 'til this new gets old? In an honest/naked attempt to broaden appreciation, it doesn't matter; it's happening now.
«Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect; Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-- We murder to dissect» ~ William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned