"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often - he searched for a simile, found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take to you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"
As we walk through our life which in a way it is make up by God's will we find lots of people, occasions and moments that we would never forget just because they were too special for us. Sometimes we really don't know the reason why we tend to remember some specific details or events or maybe also persons that through the years came to the encounter with us but in the end we come to realize that we still remember them because they shocked us or gave us everything we needed: a smile, a shoulder, the exact words or their soul.
I think that my life wouldn't be the same without those people and moments that come to my mind in this precise minute because I have learned so much from them; they helped me to be the person I am; they simply game everything a person needs to be really happy.
But the hardest part of this beautiful speech is that some of these people is no longer beside me or those moments "have gone" because they live in my past just because I moved from city to city and consequently started having new experiences with a whole changed scenario.
At this point of my life in which I am 17 years old I must confess that I am happier than never before because my life is make up by people that,as Montag said, knows every little single about you; they are able to say things before you do or to think the exact same thing that you are thinking. My life is make up by persons that, as Fahrenheit 451 claims in page 18, are unique just because they reflect what you truly are.
2 comments:
Hey Flor!! Really interesting what you wrote!! Great!!! I think the same as you, there are some persons that taught you how to live and you might be without them just now. The same happened to me with many people that went far away from my life (physical and spiritually) when I moved from downtown to Yerba Buena. What I wrote in my fotolog yesterday is the same!!! I mentioned 2 songs that make me remember those persons so much...! And I wish it doesn't happen when you leave Tucumán... it will be difficult to keep the relation we have now, or even to make it better... but we will still have the memory... i'll remember you as a great person!!! I haven't been with you some years, but I must say that last year and this one, we've become very close!!
Ok, melancholy is winning now,...
Well, Piruuu!! See youu!! Have a great long weekend and Happy Easter !! (now that it has a new meaning for you... not just eating chocolate!) ;) jaja!
I love your reflection on this quote! I'd just like to add a thought that came to my mind as I read your last paragraph: with each person we meet in our lives -be it friend, family or acquaintance- we adopt a certain 'persona' when we are with them. The kind of person we are with each of them determines the quality of the relationship, especially with the most significant people for us, i.e. special friend, lover, spouse, etc. I remember the phrase that though it sounds a bit egocentric, still rings a bell of truth: 'I like who I am when I'm with you.' I guess it's not so bad when you put it in the context of what I was saying and that you also make reference to in your last paragraph. Don't you think?
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