1. “Moving forwards”, “I’ve moved on”, “Looking to the future” etc. I hate this jargon of personal “progress”. I suppose it’s too Newtonian and linear for me. I see life as spirals within spirals and time as a solid block, not an arrow. “The past isn’t over. It isn’t even past.”
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2. I think we retrace these circles, perhaps treading the same circles again and again—perhaps reiterating it at a higher level. I think people use these banal phrases, like a corporate seminar, to disguise the real pain, joy, & tragedy of life.
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3. They “learn their life lessons” and are “looking to progress”, and “made mistakes in their last relationship”. Life is not a continuation of the schoolroom, but they still want to be good students. I have burned my report card.
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4. It relates to Kant and his idea of Enligtenment and linear progress, I think. It’s the Steven Pinker way of life. But I know that I have retread the same streets and scenarios with different people. And I’ve seen people divorce to marry a replica of their former spouse.
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5. You don’t escape people so easily, and fate draws people you thought long gone back to you. Sometimes it feels to me that everything I experience was already in me, and life is chipping it away.
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6. It’s probably more expedient, especially in this society, to see life as a movement forwards. But I don’t think it is. I think that’s just so much make up over what really is. I’m going in circles and ellipses, but so are the planets and so are the songs.
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