The Unsung Heroes

In my time travel mental games into the past, envisioning and filling in the blank spaces of the vast, unquantifiable time before my stint here, I try to imagine this phrase that so fixates my time — time immemorial. It’s inconceivable. Art, music, books, stories, legends and myths are the only windows through which to glean anything from the past. Those of course have their own limitations because humans have similar types of time and space barriers, particularly across epochs. But through mental and maybe emotional might, we’re able to transcend time and space to broach the realms of spirituality. I think it’s an innate understanding that we might have carried through time to reward those who are so able to differently. The Kings’ bard, orator, singer, dancer, storyteller have held hopes, ideals, dreams and healing of an entire people in them, and that, nobody messes with. People who are able to transmute energy into something that mesmerises is not a gift dished out every day. Because everyone gives their attention willingly, unlike a tyrant, boss or parent may demand, I suspect is one of the reasons they “feed our psyche” as Roy argues. Our reward systems between the famous and the ordinary reflect not only our current “individualist” trends but also how anything is displayed, packaged and delivered. Often times though, it is the ordinary man or woman who quietly changes the course of humanity but sadly, often long after they have been here. What I think is truly reflected is our ability to erode the magic of time out of our every day, ordinary existence— a very grown-up thing to do!