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the past is another country.... do you agree
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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do you agree with this statement... "the past is another country" it was an essay in my A level English Language paper years and years ago
would like to know if you have any opoinions |
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"do you agree with this statement... "the past is another country" it was an essay in my A level English Language paper years and years ago
would like to know if you have any opoinions "
Yes.
And no. The past is more than one country. It is a journey, a source.
Like the Danube, unless you;ve been down it do you REALLY know where it flows and emerges? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No I don't agree.
Our present condition is shaped and biased by our interpretation of our past, if we abandon the past we abandon who and what we are right now........ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I kinda view the past in the same way as I view my school years - grade 1, grade 2, grade 3 etc.. but I also believe that each of us is the sum total of our experiences, both good and bad, and to change anything that has happened - if we were given the option - would change the person you are today.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I think what it means "the past is another country" is.... leave the past and move on....
"another country"
in my opinion it means ....
the past is over let it go
nothing to do with visiting other countries.... that is merely poetic licence..... it has different meanings
like the things in our past are done with now and we need to move along and head to the future
I am well aware the past makes us what we are today... eg life events and things that have happened to us... and we cannot deny the human condition which we all possess
and also some people find it terribly difficlt to "move on" and class the past as "another country".... other people are more logical and can easily move on..... BUT can they???
we are all human.....
or do we consider Hamlet's quote
"frailty! thy name is woman!!"
hhhmm food for thought, perhaps
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"I think what it means "the past is another country" is.... leave the past and move on....
"another country"
in my opinion it means ....
the past is over let it go
nothing to do with visiting other countries.... that is merely poetic licence..... it has different meanings
like the things in our past are done with now and we need to move along and head to the future
I am well aware the past makes us what we are today... eg life events and things that have happened to us... and we cannot deny the human condition which we all possess
and also some people find it terribly difficlt to "move on" and class the past as "another country".... other people are more logical and can easily move on..... BUT can they???
we are all human.....
or do we consider Hamlet's quote
"frailty! thy name is woman!!"
hhhmm food for thought, perhaps
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i think the end of the quote helps...
The past is another country, they do things differently there...
We are all products of our pasts, however part of growth, of emotional well being,of being happy, is to recognise the decisions we made in our past and do things differently.
We would not be the same person we were at 16,26,36, hopefully every experience teaches us,to the extent that we would do things differently with the self knowledge and experience we have today.
Sir is rather fond of this Einstien quote...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Of course the drawback of the quote is that too often we try to reject or dismiss our pasts, seeing it as another country,and therefore having no relevance to where we are now...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No I don't agree.
Our present condition is shaped and biased by our interpretation of our past, if we abandon the past we abandon who and what we are right now........"
Kinda depends on whether you enjoyed your past or not dosent it?
I hated mine so as I said it shaped my future but it stays in my past
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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that is correct.... we all have a past... and we need to weigh up the pros and cons of our past as our past makes us the person we are today
however we cannot blame ourselves for some of our past.... we are not to blame for everything... not everything
as Andrew Marr says "we are where we are"
and that is true really...
"we are where we are"
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my life is a book. it has chapters. when one ends i turn the page and start again. there are things that will run through every chapter but the majority of things are closed. i actually forget about major things that have happened and if something reminds me then i talk or think about it as though it happened to someone else as i have no emotianal connection to past events |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I don't agree that you have "no emotional attachment" with the past
surely this isn't true!
we are human..... we have the human condition.... we cannot merely close the book and put it on top of a dusty shelf.... not at first anyway.... we have to have time out and to think about it before we can truly put the book away on its dusty shelf never to be opened again
When i am deeply upset by my past, i think about it and write about it too
and then after a while i look at what I have written and am amazed at the emotional turmoil i found myself in
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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accepted!
if you have anything to say on this forum topic please be polite and note the threads on here
this topic is not regarding sex, it is regarding emotional turmoil  |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"accepted!
if you have anything to say on this forum topic please be polite and note the threads on here
this topic is not regarding sex, it is regarding emotional turmoil "
Hope Raisalaff doesn't come across this thread |
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"I don't agree that you have "no emotional attachment" with the past
surely this isn't true!
we are human..... we have the human condition.... we cannot merely close the book and put it on top of a dusty shelf.... not at first anyway.... we have to have time out and to think about it before we can truly put the book away on its dusty shelf never to be opened again
When i am deeply upset by my past, i think about it and write about it too
and then after a while i look at what I have written and am amazed at the emotional turmoil i found myself in
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i do, not all the past but the real bad things i deal with and move on. if something reminds me of something i dont get upset. im completly detatched. i guess i learnt to do it many years ago or thingr would have destroyed me. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I am pleased to hear that you are able to unattach yourself from situations that are hurtful
However we are all very different evening though we purport to be swingers
we are very very different
if we were the same this site would be useless......... er???
the past is definitely another country
but for some it isn't |
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"accepted!
if you have anything to say on this forum topic please be polite and note the threads on here
this topic is not regarding sex, it is regarding emotional turmoil
Hope Raisalaff doesn't come across this thread "
there can't be much he hasn't come across? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I thought the quote was, 'The Past is a foreign country'. Like my past, there are some foreign countries I love and others I have no intention or wish to revisit. |
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