This Day

We pause in our examination of the genders.

The historian in me finds it amusing to hear the words “never forget” and “forever” spoken about this day. Humans, with their pitifully brief life spans and even shorter memories, are so desperate to hold onto meaning, but it is elusive, and their mortality makes most all things momentary in time. Each generation fashions its own importance. The relatively distant past (and our fast paced culture makes “relatively” more appropriate than ever) recedes away, with us unwilling or unable to hang onto it (or, more accurately, it is drowned out by the avalanche of the new, or even essentially erased like a hard drive writing new material over the old).

We will forget the things we need to remember, and remember what we should maybe forget. And so keep making the same mistakes. Again. And again. And again…

It is possible for this pattern to be changed to a great degree, but so far, no indication! :)