Comments on: If your life were like Bill Murray’s

By: Jean/jml918

Jean/jml918 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:31:18 +0000

Interesting thoughts! You gave me an idea for a redux post.

By: Andy D

Andy D — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:24:34 +0000

I think you have a very good point here. The voting is going to be pretty difficult this time.

By: Mr President

Mr President — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:13:27 +0000

A woman close to my own heart (although mine is cold and icy where yours is warm and mushy). I love this post, because I agree with your thinking. I’m arrogant enough to decide what I like depending on whether it’s what I would have written. Don’t act surprised.

By: 94stranger

94stranger — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:07:53 +0000

I don’t know if this is a fantasy memory, or a genuine one, but I seem to remember reading/hearing this idea that after death, and before the next incarnation, we review our lives to try and learn the lessons we have still to learn from the life that has just ended. At first, so it’s said, we are happy to be free of all the stress and struggle of life on Earth. Then, gradually, it begins to pull on us, until we can’t bear to remain outside Earth, and we are reborn here.
There are two interesting elements here: first, the inner division that I guess one must feel between the desire to learn – hence the need to re-visit the difficult, painful stuff – and the pain of that re-living – like you say, Jayne, how many times can you stand to go back? The second element is the idea that you start as a bystander and, perhaps through that continual viewing and reviewing, (of the happy stuff?) you end up with an unbearable nostalgia – why? Because life ‘down’ here is more intense?
Somewhere in all this must be a good subject for a writing challenge, maybe?

By: Romi

Romi — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:04:21 +0000

That description of Bill Murray in the end is so key; I think that says it all…great post! :-)