- Beyond Blue Forums
- Caring for myself and others
- Staying well
- Store Your Happy Memories Here:
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Pin this Topic for Current User
- Follow
- Printer Friendly Page
Store Your Happy Memories Here:
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Dear All~
What this place is for:
This thread is a tool, a resource, and also I guess a dash of entertainment.
I’ve found that when life is grim that sometimes thoughts of past happiness can create a chink of light in the grey overwhelming press of down. They can help occupy the mind with lighter reflections.
With that in view I invite people to set down a brief passage describing some happy event they look back to with fondness and peace.
They - and others too - can then return to it when they feel the need to glean a little warmth.
It is not a place for gloomy or dire tales, those can go elsewhere.
What to do:
Just set out, as simply as you like, your recollection of some past experience that means something good to you, something you enjoyed, something from safe times.
It can be, like my story below, anything – from an account of visiting grandparents to simply cooking and eating a melted-cheese sandwich in a favorite kitchen – you get to choose.
How to do it:
Write. Write enough so someone else can feel the mood, know what happened, find the goodness. (stop at 2,500 characters please!)
Grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation are not compulsory, just write as you can – the only important thing is the content - not literary merit. Short or long - it does not matter.
I hope you enjoy, contribute and find a little distraction here when you need it.
Croix
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Sorry Moon, the message posted itself mid-writing, dunno why.
I was trying to say the only way to make theater of the absurd palatable I could see was to 'rualify' it, I'm glad you liked the end up result.
"Sound of Music", or even Gilbert and Sulivan's " Mikado" is more to local taste. Mind you at one stage thay had a run of dinner music hall performances, which I enjoyed, and am sorry they stopped.
You know what I mean:
"The Amusing Application of Allusive Alliteration used with Pointed
Pungent Perspicacity in a Thrilling Threnody of Rapturous Rippling
Rambunctiousness?
And now for your delectation ..."
followed by a variety of acts, each introduced in a basilar inimitable manner.
As for your more serious question, be it Kath and Kim or OW, I guess the reaction will always be mixed. It will go over some heads, others who are more human will appreciate it and even adopt some of the sayings ("Look at me!")
Unfortunatly there will be a remainder that in OW's time would have regarded him as an impertinent bounder, and nowadays don't appreciate the Micky being taken.
C'est la Vie
Croix
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
All the bills got to be paid, so I guess they put on what pays. I think I would rather see what challenges, but not like bright laser lights flashing and blaring music at rock concert volumes. I do like things that make me think,or look at a subject differently, or leave me wanting to know more, or feeling I now do know more than I did.
Sometimes, though, a good belly laugh does wonders! I didn't like much slap-stick. I thought the jokes were taken to such absurd extremes, for no better reason than to keep the jokes going, until everyone falls down from exhaustion? I dunno.
Or maybe it is the choreographed way it has to be to be what it is. I would rather the unplanned, spontaneous moment. Something someone does or says in the moment, which was not intended to be funny.
Schadenfreude - you bet. Most comedy is. I think Maybe, I have a very immoral, possibly feral cat in here, who loves every bit of someone's blundering misfortune. I think I might have got that from my father, but not to the serious extent he had, I am glad to say.
Who remembers spinning around, getting so dizzy you fell down? I know, when I did, I'd get up, & stagger around, laughing like kookaburras. & wanting to be spun around by our feet, too, with the same result.
Another blip memory: sliding down the stair, on our bottoms, bump, bump, bruising ourselves, laughing all the way.
😹Kids are so weird!
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Dear mmMekitty~
I guess with the local rep it was as much a question of the mindset of the performers as it was any financial considerations. Traditional English seemed to be it.
I'm a bit different to you about the comedy of others misfortunes. For example I do not like Fawlty Towers as it has a hard edge but love Yes Minister.
I changed after I became ill and am now too uncomfortable with misfortune and unhappy endings - go figure.
For things that make you think I'd wonder if you like theater of the absurd too, works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.I always find there is something to ponder each time I see a performance. Then again there are other genre movies that do the same thing -Blade Runner would be one example, Ghost in the Shell another. Maybe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I guess it is the mindset of the viewer and the more references it conjures up
Perhaps for me it is often the cleverness of the words -which is why I also like Oscar Wilde (as Moon will tell you).
Croix
C
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
I have a happy memory of when I first heard Noel Coward (a radio programme) performing, "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington". Even if the words were not wonderful, his exact elocution held me to evry syllable.
Thanks Croix, I appreciate your suggested reading - I am listening to so many books I am wanting new authors, because I like at least a year before rereading books again. Thanks to my rotten memory, often it is like reading them for the first time.
Oops, I'm up very, very late/early/
I did get a really good sleep earlier, so I suppose that is why I hadn't noticed what time it is now.
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Dear mmMekitty~
I find it does not matter if I remember the content of a book from before or not , I will remember if it made me feel good. There are books I've read several times and put aside for down times and I know they will make me feel better when needed. The same applies to shows, comedies, comedians and much more.
You sound as if you have a voracious appetite for hearing material, I hope you have had a chance to browse
It's not like Project Gutenberg, seemingly full only of old stuff. I'd also suggest the Internet Archive
which has the free borrowing section as well as a straight download library.
Glad you had a good sleep
Croix
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Dear Croix and memeMkitty
I wonder if you've read Noel Coward's Diaries...I bought the thick volume years ago..good insight into the man..so clever..so witty..razor sharp..wrote his female characters in his plays so well.
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Good idea, Moonstruck. I'll have a look. I don't usually read memoir or auto/biography. Just occasionally.
,
Finances being what they are, I hope to find audiobooks I can listen to for free. (& not have to register/subscribe - giving them more of my lovely data! They do get enough already) If I could purchase every book I have listened to since I began using audiobooks I could(not) have spent maybe a $100,000 by now, easily, over the last 18 years or so. A printed book which may have taken me a month to read might be read in twenty hours. That's because, with the volume up a bit, I can do other things while listening. Printed books, you have to stop and read.
I spent many hours, being absorbed in the reading of say, Lord of the Rings, not noticing the time passing., while my mind supplemented the text with my own impressions and imaginings. I would take these imaginings to bed and be thinking of them while drifting off to sleep.
Much easier to do that then, but now it is not so easy - too many tiny distractions and I can't seem to hold my attention to my inner 'world' (whether based on some writer's ideas or my own musings).
I especially do enjoy when my mind conjures up an image, which I can then hold and turn into a piece of writing.
I have had images appear, and thought, I'd like to paint that, see if I can reproduce what I have only seen in my head. some I simply didn't have the technical skill to barely attempt, but some, I had done. A few I had done on my computer, using the old Paint programme. It has become so difficult, it is frustrating beyond endurance. Those I did manage I enjoyed very much.
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
I just remembered how I used to go into Brisbane's city centre, roam around awhile, until I found a busker/s & if they let me, I would sing with them for an hour or two. I don't think I ever took any money anyone might have given. I was just having fun.
One day, with a group of three, we went into a cafe. We had coffee, & we began to play there. I knew all the verses to Don McLean's American Pie, (the busker's mainstay), & was happy to show them.
I don't thnk we wer bad, just loud.
the cafe owner came and kicked us out.
I was not bothered in the least. It was so fun, people sitting around, & I am sure some were listening, enjoying our spontaneous performance. I had some good feelings, casual & light, like we'd been friends for years.
I never felt self-conscious until years later.
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Hello Everyone,
I don't have much to add to the literary conversation here. I don't have a favourite author, I don't recall which books I have read, I generally choose a book at the library if the cover takes my fancy in some way.
I do enjoy reading people's travel stories and have often thought of writing up my holiday diaries and adding a little to them to make them more interesting. People's adventures and "explorings" in other countries and cultures I find interesting.
My sister and I created some new happy memories last week. We went on a driving adventure. We are fortune enough to live in S.A. where that is still possible. She is happy to traverse dirt roads so I saw places I would never drive myself.
I took a few photos on my phone to remember our day.
- Mark as New
- Follow Post
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Post
Yeah mmMekitty.....I can recall myself, doing stuff like that when wandering around the streets of Brisbane by myself...usually a weekend afternoon, not many people around then....those late 60s early 70s Hippie Era days were unique, never to be repeated. compared to our freedoms eroded like they are these days.....it must have been Paradise!