Are we in a loop - is originality an illusion?
I’ve just read an old blog written by a friend called lat bit of the festival when he was in Edinburgh in 2005. It is wonderfully old in it’s style and format – blogging has moved on a long way since then and the way in which we write and communicate has changed in only a few short years; yet at the same time contextually things haven’t really changed at all. Some things are wonderfully old – I love the fact that he has entitled it “Lat bit of the festival…” instead of ‘LAST bit…” because back then spellcheckers were restricted to programs like word and it was unheard of to find one included in an online blog writing system. All test with no image – it Is so much easier to add a photo to your blog – yet back then most people would relied mostly on text only.
Yet when I read the words, it’s the same story for him as it was for me – and I think it will be again in the future. I too have just returned from the Edinburgh Theatre and Comedy Fringe Festival, and the end of it did suck. Not the event, that the event was ending. I remember feeling a little down when it was over and trying to return to a day to day routine wasn’t the most pleasant of processes. I really missed not just the festival – but the lifestyle as well.
Towards the end of the festival – and I don’t want to be explicit – but people did just seem to partner off really randomly in the last few days before it all finished, almost like the end of the world was coming and so people suddenly became less fussy about who they were with as long as they were with someone. There was one girl who did a who seemed to do it consciously. She went online and ordered a ton of makeup type stuff from cosmesuticals (which is good stuff but like most decent product you pay for it) just before the last week, then went out and brought home a different guy every night!
I just wonder if the same things happen to most people going through the same thing every year. The first time you experience something it seems new and exciting, but as you live life and grow, you look back and see the same things happening to those people who are now younger than you. You sut, and you suddenly wonder were the time went and are astonished at how young you aren’t, and that the things that were so ground-breakingly important now seem insignificant. You wonder even more that those same things are really important to the people 5 years behind you – and you know that in 5 years time those people will be where you are probably wondering where the time went.
We all strive for originality, for something different and fresh and alive.
I wonder if it even exists.