Evolution
O.K. , it was a long day , after running around the city and doing way too many things , in less than favorable weather conditions ; I was harried and sitting on the subway , checking out a little digital camera when I noticed myself and this poster !
In the last few decades , I’ve often glanced in a mirror and said to myself : ” You Are A Funny , Old Monkey ,” filed it away and then proceeded to think of myself , as the person I had been some , twenty odd years ago . LOL !
Well , I keep this image around , now , to remind myself that I am , in fact , a sixty one year old fart and here’s the proof .
I never wanted to be a “pretty boy , ” just a regular , kinda guy . I’ve always tried to be as objective and honest with myself and others , as possible . In fact in my twenties I would scrutinize myself , trying to see what it was , that any of the attention , I was getting , was all about .
I was always attracted to people with character , as opposed to a perfect face or body , much to the amazement of my , more critical friends . They just couldn’t understand why I was involved with any of the people I had intimate relationships with and frankly , I was glad . This meant ; less problems and entanglements with friends and lovers .
While I’m on this topic of evolution ; I find the way of technology and pollution , the loss of fresh air , clean water , food grown in laboratories ; spliced with animal D.N.A. , ect . no big surprise but rather ; mans’ choices towards a bigger , better world and our contribution , towards evolution , in the bigger picture of things . I’m not in favor of all this “great progress” but as I find myself , in the midst of it and at the effect of it ; that’s just how I look at it .
I recently read an article about the discovery of a human being , who’d been buried for centuries and for some reason , he’d been put to rest with a small vial of water . After the scientific analysis of the water , it was reported that with all our current technology ; the purity of the water in this vial could not be reproduced , today ! Even if it’s just interesting writing by some aggressive reporter , I found the basic tenet , in this article ; pretty amazing and food for thought .
Yes, we live in a world of imperfection , in that ; everything here , has a beginning and an end . Even us . Everything is on loan and one day it will all be recalled . We all know this but we don’t always like to think about it . We go to sleep every night and just expect to wake up again the next day . We live , as though , we’re gonna be here forever . It’s a rare bird that wakes up and is filled with wonder , that they’ve been given another day , in which , to be amazed and do great things . Yet , we all have this place inside us that we recognize as something permanent , something that stays the same , in a world of constant change . What is that and how much do we really know about it ? That’s the thing that fascinates me . Call it whatever you want . The words , came after the feeling and acknowledgment of it .
Cocteau made an interesting statement about the man he became , protecting the child he was and is still alive and well within him . I like that .
I often find myself studying the faces of my fellow passengers on the subway and seeing that child , from whence they came . Do you ever notice that ?
evolution ; n. a process of change in a particular direction; one of a series of prescribed movements ( as in a dance or military exercise ); the process by which something attains it’s distinctive characteristics ; a theory that existent types of plants and animals have developed from previously existing kinds.