Rating position
Journal created:
on 26 November 2004 (#5272038)
Updated:
on 23 September 2010
Name:
Noelle
Birthdate:
7 April 1988
It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere
sequence-
Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy
Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution,
Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning
the past.
The moments of happiness- not the sense of well-being,
Fruition, fulfillment, security or affection,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination-
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness.
-Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere
sequence-
Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy
Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution,
Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning
the past.
The moments of happiness- not the sense of well-being,
Fruition, fulfillment, security or affection,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination-
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness.
-Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot