From the people who brought us Schadenfreude, the Germans (surprise) are even more actively self-reflexive than the French, with macht dich keine sorge: make yourself no sorrows
I'm getting a lot of melancholia from you today. Is everything tippity top in the world of MMS?
I was struck by your thoughts on photographs. It is something I've become very concerned about on a personal level. I got my first camera phone, maybe 8yrs ago, and was able to take pictures reasonably easily, so now I have what feels like captured memories of various events.
I feel like I've missed out as, for one reason or another, I know of only about 30 photographs that exist of me before the age of 40. It is as though my life has been so ephemeral without the physical evidence to prove my existence.
Now I'm feeling melancholic...
My wife just told me to get over myself and stop being such a self-absorbed twat.
Ha :-) Well, those clippings come from a wide spread of years, but maybe the selection process was a little melancholic. But you're right, it's funny how we almost seem to only come into being after there's photographs of us...
From the people who brought us Schadenfreude, the Germans (surprise) are even more actively self-reflexive than the French, with macht dich keine sorge: make yourself no sorrows
Ah, yes, stressing the active component even harder... interesting!
I'm getting a lot of melancholia from you today. Is everything tippity top in the world of MMS?
I was struck by your thoughts on photographs. It is something I've become very concerned about on a personal level. I got my first camera phone, maybe 8yrs ago, and was able to take pictures reasonably easily, so now I have what feels like captured memories of various events.
I feel like I've missed out as, for one reason or another, I know of only about 30 photographs that exist of me before the age of 40. It is as though my life has been so ephemeral without the physical evidence to prove my existence.
Now I'm feeling melancholic...
My wife just told me to get over myself and stop being such a self-absorbed twat.
Hey ho.
Ha :-) Well, those clippings come from a wide spread of years, but maybe the selection process was a little melancholic. But you're right, it's funny how we almost seem to only come into being after there's photographs of us...