legitimately my favorite verse, God gave this to me when I needed it most.
(Source: spiritualinspiration)
Actual poster issued by Senator Joe Mccarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare. All Artists were suspect.
It’s not very often that these words come together in the realm of writing. Literature is meant to last and pervade the epochs. Novels, poetry and prose from the literary elite are heralded and held in high esteem, being both inspiration and competition. Those timeless pieces will last. I wonder though, that when those writers created, if they were writing for the temporary or eternal. I think deep down in the dark places of a writers heart, they wish for their work to be esteemed enough to be read and analyzed by their children’s children, although to admit that to oneself could be costly. I recently read a quote from a friend, suggesting that we should embrace the temporary nature of the internet.
Embrace the temporary.
It goes against our better judgment. We want to be noticed and remembered. Yet we embrace the temporary. Blogs, twitter and tumblr are perfect examples of this. We write, post, remark, knowing full well that it could be wiped away with a click of the mouse. Yet we still write, post, remark.This notion can be liberating for amateur writers everywhere. What’s stopping us from bearing our beasts to the world? Let’em out, let them go!
Embrace the temporary.
However, this liberating realization can also be our demise. For as much as our writing is temporary, so is the world we are writing in. Its evolving, changing, adapting, and will one day be no more. We cannot place our whole heart and lives into the temporary, for we will be left with regret and nothing else when we are forced to leave. Even the pieces of us that persist after we are gone are still only for a time. We know the names and words of Nietzsche and Hemingway, but the memory of them will also one day pass away. We can embrace the temporary in art, work and leisure, but only the foolish would go as far as to embrace the temporary to satisfy their immortal longings. Let us remember that what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Embrace the temporary, but only temporarily.
