Everybody and their brothers seems to talk about the largest IPO of the year, WE (WeWork), and everyone has read the S-1 this morning.
That’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. We’re going to talk about aging, something I wrote about before here and here.
I described aging as the expansion of the memory bank. But it’s not just the memory bank getting larger. You may have heard the line: “time is passing faster as you grow older.” Ain’t that a doozy. With aging, in 99.9 % of the people out there, the recall of memory bank grows faster from start to finish (we know at the time of death you relive your life in a second or fractions of a second). Old or older people recall things from early life, they regurgitate their lives like ruminator cows chews their cuds.
So this tape goes from start to finish in the tape recorder of your memory bank more often, and also, faster. That’s what gives the illusion of the speedier time.
Pro-tip: Spend less time with old (older) people, and more time with young (younger) people to avoid the false impression that time is passing faster. The memory containers, the tapes of the old (older) are “accelerating” from the beginning to the end faster, that’s all. The washing (aka. reliving of memories) reinforces them.
As you know, after the end of the Game of Thrones series this year I got the entire series to watch from the beginning. I am a late fan of the show, I was not watching it 4 or 7 years ago.
The Night King
The Night King character in the series is the most feared and perhaps, the most vile villain. Cersei and others were villains and such, but they were “human”. I am sure there are thousands of fans clubs for every character in GoT, Cersei included, but I never heard of fans of the Night King. The Night King doesn’t seem to inspire anyone.
The Night King is a zero-feeler, zero-lover, and zero-complainer. ZFGs. Perhaps that’s why people stay away from him so much. Being human is part of “getting-hurt” and “hurting back”, after all, that’s what people spend their lives doing. And in doing so, they build up some good memories when they get old, I might add.
To call the Night King underappreciated or underrated is an understatement. People don’t favor him because he reminds them of what they are, squirmy little rats who fester in the approval and disapproval of others. Think you’re not a rat ? Well, how many times do you complain about others ? How many times a day do you feel you have been wronged ? How many times do you feel you’ve been understood and properly rewarded ?
People feed of each others feelings. Literally. That’s how they build their memory bank tapes.
Not so with the Night King. I don’t see him happier with each killing, or sadder with each loss and retreat. I don’t see him clamoring for his victories. Never saw him disappointed either.
The Night Kind could have ten “babes” sitting on his lap, and then play You see that? like in the Three Stooges’ Moe puts his fist out for Larry, Curly or Shemp to slap his fist down so it can wind in a circle and bonk them on the head.
The Night King has earned my heart. Not because of what he does with his relentless army. But because of what he is. For he is better than any of us. And we know it.