Opus Vida – An Individual Life
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This Sea of Humanity
An individual life might have something to say, carry the day, lead the way or might not, just easing with the current. One might compete, standing high above the thronging crowd; one might refrain with a voice not so loud. Every life has something to offer, cat, rat, bat, you, me, another; might not mean much to one though it does to the other. Some strive with an inner drive, some merely strive to survive, the mass of us lie somewhere inbetween in this sea of humanity. One proclaims "There is nothing new under the sun." And this is all repetition? Said and done? A thought, an idea can transform; a lost or forgotten dream deform; the right word at the right time reform.
Life goes on, I am still alone, poor poor me; just an individual in this sea of humanity.
Welcome to My Life – 72 Years and Counting
An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.
We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!
– Thom and Willy