read this

[rm]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything

Cultural dismissal and culling vs. surrender.

Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That's the moment you realize you're separated from so much. That's your moment of understanding that you'll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there's something being performed somewhere in the world that you're not seeing that you would love.

Comments

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

I should really try to keep that in mind... Would make me far less anxious.

[deakat]

Thank you. I think that re-reading that regularly may assist me in fighting my hoarding tendencies. I do not need ALL THE BOOKS.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I need to realise that, just because disk space is cheap these days and there is always the cloud/Dropbox, I do not need ALL THE EbOOKS because I will never have time to read them all, despite wanting to READ ALL THE WORDS since I was three and first learned to read.

[sqwook.livejournal.com]

Surrender *is* a little sad. Not only all the things you'll never see, but also all the things you'll (likely) never do.

(Please, please forgive me for tying this back to Glee when you wrote something that *didn't* mention it.) That's why Kurt's "A House is Not A Home" makes me melancholy every damn time I listen to it - but I listen to it anyway. Not because the song itself is sad. Because I see in this portrayal of a quirky sensitive young person with a clear emotion-filled voice and dreams as big in the sky... well, I'm sure I don't have to even finish the sentence to say that I see myself.

My life is great. All the same...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Painful. I was thinking about this the other day, that it would be impossible to read all the things I really want to read.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

May we all meet in The Great Library That Never Closes.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

So true, yet breaks my heart that I'll never get to absolutely everything. More reason to take care of my health and live a long time, I suppose.