David ([info]david__talbot) wrote,
@ 2008-05-28 19:57:00
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Echoes from the Past
It feels strange to me that all the ghosts that haunt me are yet living.

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The persistence of memory
[info]veilluse
2008-05-29 04:19 am UTC (link)
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”

...Sometimes, (...I might be inclined to say that most times) the most insistent spectral visitors we find ourselves playing audience to are rooted in the very real flesh and blood guises of other people and in the guises of regrets lurking in the shadows in the back of our minds.
Real ghosts belong to a time far removed from our own and to memories so old as to appear archane and wholly alien to us. They're entrenched in their own ancient reveries and perhaps, they themselves, haunted by their own ghosts, fettered by their own unexorcised demons...

I believe though, that alive as we are, unlike those disembodied souls, we have the opportunity to change that; to keep from playing haunted house to our respective memories and pasts.
For the moment the present is ours. It's up to us whether or not we'll allow the past to define it...

I don't pretend to understand what might have exactly evoked this entry with the words I wrote above...I am in all respects a stranger to your history, to your passions and your life; this is merely a response to what the entry evoked in me.
An empathetic reply to my own experience with such ghosts... and the sincere hope that you are able to overcome your own.

~Dej.

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[info]mic_hell
2008-06-05 02:06 pm UTC (link)
I hope you are doing well David, I'm very pleased to come back to this place after so long and see you are still around. Even if it is only a little shard of you. Take care in all you do and may Ala bless you as long as you live.

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[info]radeity
2008-07-01 09:01 am UTC (link)
Dear David!
Phantoms of the past can come in the form of alive people, in the form of the life. You should not avoid them, you should forget them simply...

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[info]exoticmoonflowr
2008-07-08 10:26 pm UTC (link)
I understand about those ghosts too, for I have them as well.
I don't think there is anything wrong with aknowledging them, to yourself I mean, but do not let them speak louder to you than the voices than those of the living. Meaning, the people in your life who do more than merely haunt you.
It is nice to see you again here, and thank you for adding me as well.
:)

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