The Random Thought Generator...
I think the point at which you realize "you aren’t getting younger" (I wont use "getting old" because its even more ‘relative’ than the expression I did in fact use) is when you have a great many more memories than things to look forward to.
That’s a random thought really, unconnected with everything else.
Some other random thoughts regarding the twin phenomenons of "learning and experiencing" came to mind while driving to work today. Learning and Experiencing by their very nature are "stimulus-response" systems. An event or the apparent lack of an event, acts as a stimulus. The individual responds by,
Collating information and observations drawn from the actual stimulus, and thence reflecting and deriving from this information and observations.
With a real physical world action or intent of action.
Re-arrangement of already existing information.
To summarize, there has to be a ‘delta’. The stimulus – an article in a magazine, a Discman playing Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude, the statement of a law in a textbook, the Taj by moonlight, the rolling waves of the vast sea…etc are all events. If the occurrence of an event causes a "change of state / a delta" in the man/woman exposed to it, we can conclude that a process of "learning and/or experiencing" has occurred.
I know…rather pointless. This whole bit of speculation in the lines above, but it just sprung to mind and kinda stuck on for the whole duration of the forty minute drive, so well – thought ill put it down in a post. Its pointless I know…but as far as the mind goes ‘its current affairs’.
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