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Aging with GraceNostalgia and Time
Gen X learned two important life lessons from Columbia House: nothing is truly free and always read the fine print
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You’ve probably heard the phrase, “This almost wrote itself.” Well, in a way, this post did.
About a week ago, a fellow blogger wrote about The Columbia House Record Club, highlighting the wide variety of albums available during its heyday. I chimed in, reminiscing about receiving records from bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Queen, and The Beatles.
To my surprise, someone responded that many of those older albums weren’t actually available through the club at the time. “But they were available,” I thought, immediately slipping into a nostalgic reverie.
Then it hit me.
When I was ordering those albums, they weren’t “oldies” to me at all. They were current. Fresh. The soundtrack of the moment. But if you were ordering from Columbia House in the late 1980s or 1990s, those same albums were already considered classics from another era.
It’s intriguing how our perception of music evolves over time. What once characterized the present gradually transforms into nostalgia, only to be rediscovered by the next generation as a relic of the past.
A friend and I were discussing over lunch today how, as we grow older, time seems to rush by so quickly that it becomes difficult to keep any real sense of context.
Was it today? Yesterday? Last week?
The days begin to blur together in a way they never seemed to when we were young. Back then, time felt expansive. Summers lasted forever. Waiting for birthdays, vacations, or holidays could feel almost unbearable. Life moved at a slower, more deliberate pace.
Now, entire weeks seem to disappear in the blink of an eye. Monday becomes Thursday before we have fully absorbed the days in between. We find ourselves pausing mid-conversation, trying to remember when something happened, only to realize our memory of it floats untethered from time.
Perhaps part of it is routine. Our days become more familiar, less marked by the “firsts” that once helped define our lives. Or maybe it’s simply an awareness that time is no longer endless, and so we feel its passing more intently.
Still, there is something bittersweet about it. The rushing by of time is evidence of a life being lived — of lunches shared with friends, conversations that linger, memories accumulated almost too quickly to hold onto.
Peace be with you.
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WIST QuotationsDost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)
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Franklin, Benjamin - Poor Richard (1746 ed.) | WIST Quotations
Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of. Reprinted in Poor Richard Improved (1758 ed.). This edition was Franklin's final Poor Richard, and he had it prefaced (1757-07-07) by a new character, Father Abraham, who combined a hundred aphorisms from previous…
FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 1451ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)
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Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 1451ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations
FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but…
A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)
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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969) | WIST Quotations
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always…
All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Monday” (1849)
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Thoreau, Henry David - A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, "Monday" (1849) | WIST Quotations
All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.
A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)
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Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, "Fit the 5th" (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05) | WIST Quotations
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. When adapted as a novel, Hitchhiker's Guide No. 2, The Restaurant at…
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.[ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)] | WIST Quotations
Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest. [ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]…