tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post1152475917607388843..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: gull, maturity, doughnutAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-31877349847321033192011-08-16T21:57:10.474+01:002011-08-16T21:57:10.474+01:00Or maybe the subject for our (individual) Speciali...Or maybe the subject for our (individual) Specialists! ;)CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-91131942797041009182011-08-16T21:41:22.035+01:002011-08-16T21:41:22.035+01:00Not out of your wild and reckless youth yet then, ...Not out of your wild and reckless youth yet then, Joe? I always rather liked that Bob Dylan line 'Oh but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.'<br /><br />One of the worrying things about it to me is that the things which seemed important and dire at the time often dwindle, and most of my embarrassment is concerned with how much fuss I made about my own mortification when it would have been better to shut up and let it go, while things which I tried to brush off as insignificant at the the time are the ones that make me cringe and hide my head in shame under the bedclothes in the silent watches of the night.<br /><br />You shouldn't really have got me started on this, it really should be my specialist subject...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-75463645625211324062011-08-16T17:49:37.796+01:002011-08-16T17:49:37.796+01:00As hard as it may be to accept, I seriously doubt ...As hard as it may be to accept, I seriously doubt that your life's errors, blunders, accidents are any worse, or probably as bad as the next fellow's.<br />And how many of them even share your level of introspection? ;~/CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-86267138442854277302011-08-16T17:34:21.103+01:002011-08-16T17:34:21.103+01:00I think errors of the sort you're referring to...I think errors of the sort you're referring to don't really become errors until you've done them more than once. A once-only error could probably be classified as an accident, something that could have gone either way. Nothing personal. True errors are hard-wired failings, strings of tin cans tied to our ankle, that we've dragged around for years. Failings in fact. Not only ineradicable but capable of stealing up on us and dealing ghastly memories out of a past we like to think of as sealed. Far from helping us blunt these Proustian experiences, maturity seems to paint them in brighter colours, turning remembrance into something even more painful. Time turns out to be no healer.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com