I never saw it this way until last year. The theme of my life every year.
It brought itself to my attention and then I got the cue. Every year has a particular theme to it which defines what we were like in that year. Our obsessions, lessons that we might have learnt, the ruling metaphor for that year of our lives, a particular person, subject or thing which somehow keeps recurring in patterns as though to deliver a message that's been missing in our lives.
Last year, 2015 was the year captured by Don Quixote la Mancha for me. In every sense of the name, including an adventure to a far away land to complete the analogy.
This year, it's been Temperance.
Looks connected, the two of them. Temperance which has been the key theme in many people's bildungsroman. Saying is very easy, but learning from your mistakes and not repeating them, the effort at least not to, is a tremendous exercise. So I am at it.
It brought itself to my attention and then I got the cue. Every year has a particular theme to it which defines what we were like in that year. Our obsessions, lessons that we might have learnt, the ruling metaphor for that year of our lives, a particular person, subject or thing which somehow keeps recurring in patterns as though to deliver a message that's been missing in our lives.
Last year, 2015 was the year captured by Don Quixote la Mancha for me. In every sense of the name, including an adventure to a far away land to complete the analogy.
This year, it's been Temperance.
Looks connected, the two of them. Temperance which has been the key theme in many people's bildungsroman. Saying is very easy, but learning from your mistakes and not repeating them, the effort at least not to, is a tremendous exercise. So I am at it.
