Reply #180: I guess that too, is a matter of perception [View All]

The condescension part, I mean.

I wasn't there. I wanted to go, but circumstances beyond my control prevented it.

I've "lived" the experience vicariously...through, first, the album, then the movie/DVD.

Not the same. If someone expressed pity that I couldn't be there to experience the vibes and beauty and the whole atmosphere I would know they were right. And my heart would ache all the more because I really did want to go.


I think that something people need to realize also is that Time has a way of causing us humans to see things in a different light. Romanticize them, in a way. That's why some people, at the end of a difficult relationship, might tend to imagine that there was more to it than there was...that their SO was more kind...more loving...a totally different person than he or she is now.

If any of us Boomers seem like we're making a particular era into an Era To End All Eras, please realize that it's not unusual. Sometimes things are way better or way worse in our memories than they really were...