[note to self, remember that when Jennifer says 'very long', she means it :) There's an unfinished response at work because, well, I had to do some.]
I understand the 'in the midst of life, we are in death' thing. I was thinking about it last night on the way back from a more-deaths-than-usual opera and how it contrasts with an ex who was genuinely surprised they made it to their 30th birthday (and beyond).
I'm not surprised I've got to 40, I greatly appreciate the things that have made it possible - from medical advances to a prolonged period of relative peace, to sexual choices twenty years ago - but I am aware just easily it could have been different and how fragile individual life is.
I'm not sure where it comes from for me - having a parent in the emergency services? - but it's fairly deep. Having friends die over the years and now one of the ultimate demonstrations of that fragility - a baby - have just reinforced it.
Hmm, how do other people living in a major terrorist target not think about this? Probably the same way a huge number of bisexually behaving people simply don't have a sexual identity.
I wonder if it's easier to be a drone, to accept some of the stuff we don't, yet not accept some of the things we do - like the reality of death. How are you on the life after death issue?
One of the things that makes me go, 'yes, I have found my people' in the bi community (amongst other places) is the diversity. We're not all the same.
Mind you, it can sometimes feel like it's a diversity of white middle class men and... white middle class women :))
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Date: 2003-02-13 12:35 am (UTC)I understand the 'in the midst of life, we are in death' thing. I was thinking about it last night on the way back from a more-deaths-than-usual opera and how it contrasts with an ex who was genuinely surprised they made it to their 30th birthday (and beyond).
I'm not surprised I've got to 40, I greatly appreciate the things that have made it possible - from medical advances to a prolonged period of relative peace, to sexual choices twenty years ago - but I am aware just easily it could have been different and how fragile individual life is.
I'm not sure where it comes from for me - having a parent in the emergency services? - but it's fairly deep. Having friends die over the years and now one of the ultimate demonstrations of that fragility - a baby - have just reinforced it.
Hmm, how do other people living in a major terrorist target not think about this? Probably the same way a huge number of bisexually behaving people simply don't have a sexual identity.
I wonder if it's easier to be a drone, to accept some of the stuff we don't, yet not accept some of the things we do - like the reality of death. How are you on the life after death issue?
One of the things that makes me go, 'yes, I have found my people' in the bi community (amongst other places) is the diversity. We're not all the same.
Mind you, it can sometimes feel like it's a diversity of white middle class men and... white middle class women :))