Upon looking at life and situation many adhere to certain perceived norms. We feel things in our own sphere of influence are or tend to be the most socially economical and cerebral of all the things imaginable until the boon of wealth, knowledge, and experience appears almost as real mirages before our eyes. The things, people, and encounters that can tell us, teach us, and prove to us our textbook experiences are hogwash and our future be all and end all is nothing but monkey play and calculated encounters and experiences , though held dear, in the sphere of probability and statistics.
The old world knowledge, scene, and experience is often lost in the melee of complex and strategical interactions of the here and now. Our interactions with the past and our engagement to seek out solutions to the world around us abound within and among our aged population and in resources they have left us. Their expertise, knowledge, and influence bear witness to their resilience, adaptability, and ingenuity. Their structures, ideas, and advancements can be seen from personal pleasantries to tools of necessity and instruments and structures of innovation.
Actions in the warfare of current times in counteraction of times gone past in relation to modern style, culture, and seemly old world simplicity are ever engaging in conflict and homogeneity. Arguably our advancements for debatable betters in easing our toils in combination with the freeing of time often bring us to a point where the norms of yesterday are all but pleasant glances as we vacation in a place set as time for their recognition and seeking. For many gone are the days of the wobbly table of grandpa made with love durable as steel over time and fixable by coaster placement from the scant necessity. These rustic and modern amenities turned creations of comfort make and made our life oddly more comforting and efficient even if cumbersome.
The cognitive reality and circumspection of then, now, and circumspection may enable one to initiate anywhere from pleasant memories and historical recollections to plans of action and thoughts to become more self-reliant or appreciative in common things subtly enhancing the quality of life. Perspective, time, and resources given variable circumstances, and pleasant stimulation to the eye or functional as eyesore bring us to feelings of good grief to smiles of accomplishment or satisfaction. The modern pace of today has us pulled, paced, and positioned in oscillating and inverted circumstances. The demands of life, need, and expectation contained in the human condition and experience take us from one encounter to next sometimes in careening ever increasing velocity. The twists, turns, and ripples are exponential in probability and statistic given perspective in all parallel universes of exponential choice and opportunity.
They don't make things the way they used to. Things remain, alter, and stagnate. The things our predecessors and in farther back generations and modern time had to accommodate, create, or contemplate brought birth to unprecedented thinking, mechanisms, and spectacles as testaments to ingenuity and innovation of their generation. Necessities bought in to fruit as means to an end with an eye toward long term solutions and resolve to improve and obtain immortality. Often forgot as we stroll, interact, and exact each encounter of the human condition and experience is the knowledge of what lies beneath. Standing in an old building, paying a visit to an older or modern church, and ignorable encounters in grocery stores in conjunction with the ignored 'hello' and 'hi' of a passerby show the security consciousness of reality and in those few instances too much holistic entertainment in our lives.
The object of desire may have been the hand formed tool from the masonry work kiln in the backyard with the grandson, always the concern to most moms. The sanded object of necessity by junior and pappy as combination wear out the kids babysitter and object of future functionality and desire. Those pragmatic, realistic, honest, mind wrestling, and taboo conversations with elders who have gone before bringing about the tell me more head-scratch of unconsidered perspective as the altered realty from those who lived and experienced. The tools were functional and durable and from materials many would question under today's safety codes and conditions where bleve was an acknowledged concern and ignored. These experiences are welcomed breaths of fresh air in a world of healthy improvement, streamlining, and exponential voluminous variables of probability and statistic. Their highlights may have been improved upon and left as projects, ideas, wisdom, and innovations to be improved and enhanced as gift for future generations.
Items were made with the touch of a rich man or woman working on the finest creation yet. Be it the building and fabrication of the chest for the end of the bed as a gifted contribution to the household, the room clearing plumbing project with the side munchies and beverage, to the backyard, front porch, sidewalk spectacle the texture and quality of time spent inducing, pondering, and creating combined with the ingenuity of the standing remedy for years to come. The end product a spectacle of beer raising cheers or a 'yep it ain't pretty but it got us there or through' culminated with the accomplishment of corner seated reflection, questioning, and alright tweaks for a week or more to come.
The common spectacle and self made items, alternative methods, and thoughts procured for useful employment for whatever as mechanisms of practical application are boons of indispensability in a world of ever changing definitions of usefulness and pragmacality. This reality of wealth within or elders and more experienced in years is often lost in the athletic appearance of some and frail condition of others. The history contained within the eyes of they who have lived and seen bear witness to both the atrocities of the psyche of mankind and it highest aspirations surpassing mans conceptualization and physical manifestations of the greatness of mankind's ambition for immortality. These advancements small scale or massive in concept as with today's were met with varied obstacles, obstructions, and 'how the hells'. Those advancements were made as today's are from reflection, available resources, and implementation of the combination of all these for contribution to meet needs, necessary requirements, and expectations.
Upon holding, glancing, or utilizing these beholden back in the day small modern marvels and creations one may often be awed. Time, effort, and experience executed in practical application for physical manifestation and verbal passing to future generations leaves one feeling pleasantly fulfilled even when confused as to all steps and rationale of the information overload of relevant yet back in the day terminology and processes required. Be these encounters from the hometown conversation of the Independence Day barbecue lawn chair and overloaded plate of celebration to those frequent landmarks of your hometown and business locations of back in the day allowing one to recollect and comprehend perhaps more deeply what once was just a road and building passed on the way by for errands or appointments.
When interacting with our elders and more experienced in years it is easy to exclude from the equation, given present time and circumstances, for some the depth and breadth of the knowledge and wisdom these boons of creation bear personal witness to. These men and women of older age and experiences have knowledge, wisdom, and wealth incalculable in all exponentiality given probability and statistic, choice, decision, cause, and effect upon all spheres of parallel universes. Regardless of background, financial well being, dependance, freedom, or frailty these veterans of history possess the keys to many of our circumstances and problems that can unlock the doors to endless potentiality and practical application. Personal interactions while we walk, stroll, or have a seated conversation and free encounter over toast, tea, television program, or meal leave one feeling rejuvenated as if returning from a home away from home and enlightened as if having watched a documentary of our own choosing with the absence of being off by a few hours or days in programing.
Through innovation and advancement ongoing necessities for survival and adaptation necessary for competition and successful achievement continue to be adapted, contemplated, and improved upon. Things and people change, progress, and remain unaltered and the consistent wealth, experience, and knowledge observed in the lives of our elders and those with twilight years are to be experiences shared by young men, women, and youth of today for preservation for years to come. These veterans of history for the cost of a little patience, a simple stir of a cup, smidge of time, receptive, confused, or questioning ear abound within our population. They are a testimony to their society, the wealth of their civilization, and witness to time and circumstances, people of adaptation for a past for some and not to be forgotten for use as instruction for our future.
The norms of modern times with the advancement of technology, time, and aspirations of the modern era often neglect the value of the intangible and physicality of reality, perception, potentiality, and exponentiality of the real and possible.