Those Days

 

     When we think back to our youth, we may try to remember what THOSE DAYS were all about and have that feeling that things would be much better (or perhaps simpler) if we could journey back and have things return to the way they were then.  But the honest truth is that we are only remembering a specific moment or event that provided us with great pleasure at the time and that’s the way we want things to always be.  We know that time never stands still for anyone and it would be impossible for things to be as they were in the past.  Of course, that is with the exclusion of the fact that we can continue to recall these things within our minds.

      In all fairness to our memories and as faulty as they are many times, we need to understand that those great and beloved moments were probably not as great and wonderful as our minds tell us they were.  With the invention of photographs, videos, and voice recording devices we are able to impress the past onto recordings and photographic paper for those times in the future, times that are greatly removed by the present moment when those events took place, we can view or listen to these things and get a better understanding of how THOSE DAYS really were!

 

     Now within our present time we are wrought with the idea that on various occasions we have ONE OF THOSE DAYS!  We’re not thinking about some memory from the past.  No, we are having a day in which many bad or unpleasant things happen to us.  You may consider: I missed the bus for work and as it was leaving the stop it splashed mud all over me; it’s just ONE OF THOSE DAYS!  This is about the place in your thoughts where you begin to think of Murphy’s Law!  It tells us “if anything can go wrong, it will.”  You might find a closer examination of Murphy’s Law interesting by looking at the information found at http://www.murphys-laws.com/

 

     The American sitcom television series All in the Family was broadcast for nine seasons, from 1971 to 1979.  It had an opening theme song, “Those were the Days”, that was performed by the leading role actors Carroll O’Conner (who played the part of Archie Bunker) and Jean Stapleton (who played his wife, Edith).  The lyrics of the song were basically that of reminiscing of the past and how they felt things would have been better to return to THOSE DAYS!  If you’d like to see the lyrics and hear the opening song performed by the actors themselves go to https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/archie-and-edith-bunker/those-were-the-days-theme-to-all-in-the-family

 

     There’s also one other thing we don’t want to forget.  A few years from now, and it may not be as long as we might think, we’ll be sitting in our favorite chair, reminiscing about TODAY and thinking that it was ONE OF THOSE DAYS!  And that’s because we’re only human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"The only thing GOOD about the

GOOD OLE DAYS,

is that they're GONE!"