It is a refreshing thing to my mind, to know that they were just like us. Now, then, and presumably forever…(or at least for a very long while)…perhaps we were never that different, for beneath the elements of culture and language we all experience a same general spectrum of feeling; in this century as in the previous ones, it is the same. We merely express them in a different way using different words.
The words of those in times before us, times that have long passed out of common memory, seem eloquent and noble without having the archaic nature about them which would sever them off from the seemingly immediate relevant context and meaning for their readers. They are not ‘too’ far away to seem like some old relic of ages gone by, mere fantasy. They lie in the middle, between the present and the past. Transcending our here and now, but attainable for those who make an honest endeavor to reach…yet they often seem too sacred to dare approach.
Perhaps the people of the future will find our words as deep and expressive as we find those of the past. We are all expressing the same sentiments, only in a different manner and with different terms. Whether or not the manner of said expression has “fallen” in the eyes of our contemporaries is irrelevant, for it is not ‘how’ that matters, but the fact that what yearns to be expressed exists within each one of us and has existed for countless ages, and that does not change.
On a basic level, we are all the same. We just express ourselves differently; through the different modes of expression we may find everywhere our universal themes which link us all, and those are the tales that maintain a timeless quality and transcend the mode through which they are expressed to touch us all and make us understand:
They were just like us.
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