September 28th, 2007
Signal Hill
If you could send a signal and it would keep transmitting forever, what would you send? Would its content even matter? Small changes change meaning a lot.
Transcriptorial: that no one understood it / mattered little / he knew it would persist long after // that no one understood it mattered / little he knew / it would persist long after
“Spontaneity and impulse made me come up with such pointless message. Now future generations must hear this over and over again. Sorry.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
“Wake up. You’re dreaming again. And there are dragons in the mist.”
“tap..tap….is this thing on?”
“Don’t give up. Someone needs you.”
“As bad as it gets, know that far better than yourself have endured far worse. Take comfort in their strength and let it inspire you to persevere.”
“If you can hear this, you’re still alive.”
The first one is still out there, gorram Hitler’s speech. Mine would just be ‘Danger: Humans!’
“i love you.”
It wouldn’t be the most important thing I have to say, or the next most important, or the next.
Eventually people would stop listening.
[...] to prompting and [...]
when you feel alone, here this and know you’re not.
Soon these words will be as the wind in your ears.
“When I promised you forever, I meant it. I love you and I always will.”
In the grand scheme of things not an important message. But to me, it’s everything.
“Honesty Loyalty Honor and Integrity are the most important laws”
“Always question. May you one day find the answers.”
the hardest job-interview question for me is always ’so describe to me who you really are’ there is no way to sum up life, love, or even an opinion in some way others might recognize and understand. over time even the most sincere sentiments of love sound trite, and quotes and slogans would make no sense and are easily twisted when taken out of the context we,in the present, take for granted.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, no, it wouldn’t really matter if it made sense to anyone else, so long as it was important to you.
Also “If you can hear this, I bite my thumb at you”