Shadows of the Past

The past withput a doubt is an important part of a person`s life, the past is what makes us the human being we are today.  As you said, it is true that soem people like to remember their past depending on what they are remembering; the past of every people is full with good and bad moments but both are really importnat. n the past I had made lots of mistakes, of course, but there are like three or two the really big ones…those mistakes that if I could leave again I will absolutely erase them from my life because I had receive my  “punishment” for commiting them and the lessons were very hard for me because they were not given by my parents but form up above. But in general, when I look back I feel good of what I have been doing.

I do think that I live in the shadow of my past because everything that I doen is in my mind and in other people`s mind and it is not easy to forget. Besides, the past is what makes me who I am today so it is impossible to forget what has make me be myself.

Read Tears, Idle Tears, by Lord Tennyson

How caqn tears be “idle” -can you cry without knowing why?

Of course I can cry without knowing why. I will give you some examples, if someone is depressed she or he tends to cry without a specific reason or when a woman is “in her days” she feels sad with no reason and cries.  But you do not only cry because of sadness you can cry because of happiness also,  you just see something that is not happening to you, something good, and just start crying and you do not why.

Tears are a way in which you are able to show how you feel about a specific subject or person; it is not good to prevent them from falling, you better let them fall, it does not matter if you do not know why!

What do you think the “divine despair” is in line 2? Could you relate it to Adam and Eve’s fall in Genesis -would that story explain the speaker’s existential sadness?

Does the contradiction in the phrase “Death in Life” (line 20) make sense to you? Explain. What is your response to this line? Have you ever felt this way?

I think that it is a really good line,  it means that a person is alive but he or she does not has something that impulses him or her to continue living, it is a person walking with no soul, with and empty soul and body, with no reason to leave and only waiting the time to pass away.

Of course I have felt lonely, desperate, and in one of those moments when you do not find the solution for your problems I even thought that it was not worth to keep on fighting. But I never really felt like if I had an empty soul and I always had something for what to live so I have npot really felt like that exactly.

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