The day I realised I had more years than Beethoven, I wept.
And I searched for a possibility to give some of my years onto him. But I didn't find how.
Than I realised that a genious like Beethoven might need more than a year of mine to have a year of life in his being.
An further I took into account that he might have died earlier but others like me spend him years from their own ones.
This I think to be a mere fantasy of mine and yet I can't stop it.
I think I know what you mean. I, too, have often thought of the fate of great men of the past. So many artists, architects, writers, poets and composers have died at a younger age (much younger than Beethoven even). It is almost impossible for the modern human brain to process and make sense of this. But you know what - I think that people in the past lived much more valuable and fulfilling lives. I feel like they used their time in a much more valuable way. They created great things in a very short time, and perhaps time for them ran in a different way.
But if this is not the case, we are left again with the reassurance that everything is fate and nothing can be changed. This man should have come into the world in this short period of time, to create some great things, and then go away.
What do we mere mortals know about this matter at all? 🤔
Me for my own part I do not wish to leave traces.
On the contrary I wish to erase my traces or at least to reduce them.
Sometimes it really looks like that!
Ha ha, I'm absolutely the same ☺️ Don't want to leave traces too.
I have a book written that I'm still trying to find a way to publish, because I think it could be interesting for some people to read it from an informative point of view. But other traces - no! 😄
I wrote a little poem on that (inspirated by a photo of weisser-rabe).
As the chance likes it, this was precisely 3 years ago.
https://steemit.com/hive-155041/@ty-ty/die-vorstellung
It is written in German and there are neologisms that are not easy to translate. But I could try to explain them if it is wanted.
What is your book like? A novel? A travelling guide?
Wow! That is so beautiful! ❤️
But I need some time to think it through and understand it fully.
I understand German.
Thank you.