
- Aug 17, 2009
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Yes, this is life. In that moment that flag means everything. But that moment can never be recaptured. You can watch the replay of course, but that is not reliving the moment. If you were at the game, it is clearly nothing like it, but even if you watched it on TV the first time, the replay is different. The outcome is known, nothing will change. There is no tension, anxiety, yearning that existed the first time.By that logic, this years premiership will mean nothing in 50 years, and by extension no premierships matter at all.
Ok then.
But perhaps it's too much to say that it will mean nothing in 50 years. It just has a different meaning. But it is a fundamentally different meaning, memory is not the same as experience. It is tempting to say it is lesser, but perhaps that is unfair. It is simply existentially different. The past, as they say, is a foreign country.
This really applies to everything in life, whether it be your first sexual experience or the birth of your child. It's why, IMO, you should to the greatest extent possible enjoy the moment you are living in right now.