Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
Dec. 31st, 2010 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pallas_athenaBelow: a well-sung version of Auld Lang Syne. I like this man's performance; I like how it starts hesitantly and builds in intensity until it fades away. Also, he is properly Scottish, which is essential.
Mostly I like it because he's singing about what it's really about; mourning the distance grown between the poet and his former friend. That's what I think of when I sing this song these days: even in this age when we're all partly connected by the web, how easy it is, how painfully easy, to lose people.
One thing I've always believed is that the two great constants of existence are transience and recurrence. Transience seems obvious: nothing lasts forever. But it also seems obvious to me that nothing is guaranteed to be gone for good, and that things thought lost are often found again in unexpected ways, after a turn or two of the wheel.
That is my hope, at least. But we know hope lies to us all the time.
Let's just sing, shall we?
Mostly I like it because he's singing about what it's really about; mourning the distance grown between the poet and his former friend. That's what I think of when I sing this song these days: even in this age when we're all partly connected by the web, how easy it is, how painfully easy, to lose people.
One thing I've always believed is that the two great constants of existence are transience and recurrence. Transience seems obvious: nothing lasts forever. But it also seems obvious to me that nothing is guaranteed to be gone for good, and that things thought lost are often found again in unexpected ways, after a turn or two of the wheel.
That is my hope, at least. But we know hope lies to us all the time.
Let's just sing, shall we?
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on 2010-12-31 10:26 pm (UTC)transience and recurrence
on 2010-12-31 11:28 pm (UTC)