tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343304851084119990.post7532810218097543486..comments2017-09-15T06:41:59.265-07:00Comments on Decade 4: 161111Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11965535693027179744noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343304851084119990.post-46139289478977972072011-11-17T07:23:55.852-08:002011-11-17T07:23:55.852-08:00Alec:
Such generous and perceptive words - thank y...Alec:<br />Such generous and perceptive words - thank you.<br />I suppose we just have to trust our brains to keep what we need and discard what we don't. I'm sure bad memories are often just as valuable as good ones, and worth storing, even if we rarely need to bring them to mind.<br />Football does inspire a peculiar kind of passion; one which, unfortunately, it has always escaped my ability to adequately explain, at least any better than in my reply to Jane and Lance above. As you say, it is not easy to see why people become so attached to certain activities. As you also say, weird :)<br />Sentimentality should be gushing, I think, and I would do well to at least peer over the parapet of my tower now and again. Your reports of shedding a tear or two in Spain partly inspired me to reveal my own nasolacrimalic exploits, and for that I thank you. Please help yourself to a reciprocal kiss (or three) on the way out.<br />x x xBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11965535693027179744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343304851084119990.post-44856118159530851002011-11-17T05:31:08.939-08:002011-11-17T05:31:08.939-08:00Jane and Lance:
My Cecil Beaton comment yesterday ...Jane and Lance:<br />My Cecil Beaton comment yesterday was a big clue to the first of the three countries. The other was a brief stop in the Republic of Ireland on the way back to the UK, although I did get some time to stumble jetlaggedly around Dublin.<br />I can well see how ridiculous the whole football business seems to a non-believer, as it were. The best way I can explain it is that I don't miss the act of playing so much as the person I became when I was playing. But you're right, it's downhill from here in terms of joint health, and I intend to make the best of things.<br />I'm a hoarder of memories. I want to keep them all, good and bad, and I hate it when I lose them. But I said that already, didn't I?!<br />Child? Guilty as charged.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11965535693027179744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343304851084119990.post-2783882134734997592011-11-16T16:58:12.636-08:002011-11-16T16:58:12.636-08:00Many happy returns of the day, Ben (and a kiss!). ...Many happy returns of the day, Ben (and a kiss!). I'm sorry I missed writing it on the right day. This was a beautiful post, to which I have difficulty responding. Perhaps it doesn't need a response. Even if I'd a mind to there's nothing I can contradict because it's your experience. And while I'm feeling sympathy, there's nothing which really indicates you want it, or need it. Your words sounded as tho' they expressed your reality. Maybe no memory, good or, unfortunately, bad is lost, at least until the synapses start to misfire. I'm very sorry you've lost football. I'm trying to imagine what that's like and can only think it must be the same as if I wasn't ever able to ride again, but I don't really know if they're comparable. Footballers seem to have more passion about their game than players and fans of other sports. Weird :) It's so hard to feel other people's passions. I thought your post was wonderfully sincere, but in a way it's armour plated. There is no way in for this gushing sentimentalist. You've covered all the points of entry with hard, bright honesty. It's like a jewel and I love it. Love, Alec xxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343304851084119990.post-60808108214740657842011-11-16T08:08:49.395-08:002011-11-16T08:08:49.395-08:00Hello Ben:
First, we are intrigued to know just wh...Hello Ben:<br />First, we are intrigued to know just which are the three countries in which you spent your birthday. Jet travel makes so much achievable in the space of a mere 24 hours that our minds are simply agog with the possibilities. Do tell.<br /><br />Secondly, the knee. We can well appreciate how much of a blow this is to you as Football has played such a significant role in your life. We have no wish at all to trivialise your concerns, far from it, but from our perspective with our additional decades we are truly grateful to get up in the morning and find any working parts in our bodies. Perhaps think on this when next watching from the sidelines!!!<br /><br />As for memories vanishing, well, we certainly have no wish to hold on to so many of the details and, as the years advance, we find ourselves increasingly concerned with the present, the here and now. Indeed, we find it rather liberating that time has washed away so many past recollections, especially those that were best not given a second thought when they happened. <br /><br />And so, dear Ben, many, many happy returns.....35....just a child....!!Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.com