There's not many things that move me these days. I find that it gets harder and harder for me to feel touched, moved, emotional even over things that happen around the world. I guess I'm just getting older, more cynical and emotionally tougher - it's called growing up I think.
And yet every now and again I do come across little bits of human activity that move me, tiny fragments of humanity floating around in the grey of everyday life that splash some colour onto the world in a way words simply cannot describe. A glimpse of what the world could be.
Go Matt.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Moving
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Hmmm, the name of your entry puzzled me, because moving usually means geographically in your case my friend. Well, glad you're moved but not moved if you know what I mean. Ah hell, you getting older means harder on the emotional side- I just find it means (in my case) that it's getting harder for me to think a whole thought
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You're right, this IS really nice. You seem to be good at finding interesting stuff on the net (thinking of the flying spaghetti monster in particular, which still amuses me today). I know the phenomenon you're talking about, I've been feeling like a bit of a robot myself for a while, but while I'm not entirely sure where this comes from, I still haven't given up hope that it's gonna change again.
So keep posting all the moving things you come across, it's very therapeutic to encounter them...
To be honest, given that since I arrived in Scotland I've moved (house) 11 times (yes, e l e v e n times), it's safe to assume I've moved far more than I've been moved.
So is it part of growing up you think? Is that why writers and poets lament their youth, their excitement, their "oh-my-god-emotions-run-so-high-right-now" years? And B, could that be why forming a whole thought becomes more difficult? If the emotional side of one's brain goes into hibernation - or is somewhat anaesthetised - then not all of the brain's circuitry are alert and contributing, hence completing notions in one's head becomes problematic. Or, to put it simply, the older we get, the slower we think. Rats, not good.
V, I've recently been told the same thing, about discovering all the interesting junk on the internet, and I'm not sure that it's a good sign - I mean, if I'm spending all my spare time sailing the endless seas of internet junk only to fish out the nice things then I'm probably just wasting my life. No?
Still, when the fishin's good, the sailin's worth it. Amen.
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