Chuck Israels wrote:
Why did I bite for this? My ego couldn't resist, so I spent the better part of the last two hours looking at stuff I said, stuff I don't remember saying (some pretty good, some not), people saying they like my work, people who don't, things I am proud of having done, things I don't remember ever doing, a smart aleck article I wrote for the MIT paper in 1958 that I wish had disappeared instead of being immortalized in a web archive, - arghhh!
I saw Richie Havens in concert outdoors in Lowell a number of years ago, and one of the things he remarked on was how all the music that's ever been performed is still vibrating around the universe, the energy is still there.
His remark could well have been made about everything we've ever said or written in addition to every note we've ever played -- for good or ill, whatever we do is with us forever, and will be there for our grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren to find. Assuming, of course, that we haven't nuked ourselves to death in the meantime. But even then, it will all be here for space travelers to find and unravel.
Which makes the rabbit's mother's remark from the movie Bambi even more important to remember and live by: "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." That way we can be remembered as a saint who didn't hate anybody instead of a curmudgeon for whom nothing was ever right.
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