Time

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:05 am

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

-Pink Floyd-

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Wow! I still loving it!

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:19 am

I think of that song all the time, especially the

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

part.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:38 am

I remembered it when I was asking to Gnaws in a post from him in "Rabbit Corleone" (Share Your work). He said that he never finish the things, than time always is not enough and that he doesn't find the deadline of his projects...
I feel like that now too...

You know, I have very few free time to dedicate to myself (computers, animation, programming...) and have the sensation that years go by and I did not nothing for what I could be remembered for when I wouldn't be here... This creates me anxiety...

I'm 37. You know, I have two sons but not have written a book or planted a tree...
Anyway I hope this bad patch passes (like always) and go back to the routine...

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:17 am

The Romans knew all about this. When Caesar rode a chariot through the cheering crowds, he would pay someone to stand beside him and whisper in his ear: "Remember you will die..."

J

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:04 am

Well, at least I don't have any need or desire to be remembered after my death. What good is fame to a dead person? This is why I make an effort to let people know how I appreciate them while they're alive, while they have the chance to know that they're appreciated.

I have no offspring, and never will, so it's not like I need to leave a legacy. It's like Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying."

F.M. · Post by **F.M.** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:11 pm

And these are some of the deficiencies of the Human god(the animator) He can only try to create pseudo life, but sometimes lacking one or all of the following, time,skill, patience or inspiration among others. The obsession to animate I compare to a misguided god complex. This kind of babble is the result of overthinking everything, when one should be DOING instead. PS you guys started it!

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:41 pm

Touched wrote:Well, at least I don't have any need or desire to be remembered after my death. What good is fame to a dead person? This is why I make an effort to let people know how I appreciate them while they're alive, while they have the chance to know that they're appreciated.

I have no offspring, and never will, so it's not like I need to leave a legacy. It's like Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying."

If you really can and don't want, you are missing one of the most beautiful and gratifying thing in the world.

I said in a figured meaning: plant a tree, have a son, and write a book. In fact I want those kind of things to be accomplished when I'm alive because if only I have a minute of my life where my son gift me a smile, someone read my book and can rest under the shadow of the tree It have been worse all the effort during all my life.

@ FM: You're right don't loose the time thinking more than acting. We should have an equilibrium. A friend of mine always said to me: The best is an enemy of the good.

So...
Let's animate!!!

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:10 am

If you really can and don't want

I expect I'm capable of reproduction, though I've always taken precautions so as not to confirm that assumption. I can think of 1 or 2 good reasons for me to have a kid, but neither of them outweigh the reasons not to. The concept of wanting kids is foreign and alien to me. I have nephews, a niece and cousins where I can see those things you describe without them having to be my own.

On the other subject, I like that adage your friend uses, "The best is the enemy of the good." Another good one is "Be bold. You will regret the things you don't do more that the things you do."