ever wanted to go back in time? i have... still do...
with my interest in the history of railway transportation and architecture of older style buildings, it would be of great fascination to go back in time to see these things in their 'heyday' so to speak...
one of my favourite engineers is j.j.c. bradfield - the guy who managed the design and construction of sydney harbour bridge and also storey bridge in brisbane and the city circle railways of sydney and electrification of the sydney railways...
i would love to have been around at the time of all these grand projects coming to fruition and construction, understand the workings of such complex minds and watch the hard labour of man actually making these designs a reality. even to be around at the time when new cities were being born.
the brain really is an amazing tool.
even to be able to travel back in time to see things that are no longer - one of which i remember seeing a documentary about at the big imax theatre in sydney about the history of sydney - it spoke of a grand palace and gardens smack in the city area (i think around the eastern side of the city), that later burned down in a fire and parts of the palace gardens are still in existence today (i recall them speaking of a large gateway structure that is in the middle of a park - perhaps centennial park? now i'm just clutching at straws...)
at the other end of the scale, i think it explains why i desire to live forever, to be able to see and be amazed at what structures and feats of construction are scaled into the future.
i suppose it leads to the question of past lives - is this the only shot at a life we get, or have we descended from souls of the past? how do we find out? but what would it achieve? finding out that we each may have had a life in the past wouldn't instantly provide us with a recollection of memories of the times lived.
i've been flicking through many old photos i found on a flickr site of railway nostalgia in melbourne/victoria and seeing lots of old photos of melbourne city and it's surrounding suburbs... i think that's what gives me this endless thought process of "what was it like and what would living in that era be like?"
and what would it have been like to watch the stack getting constructed, amanda?!
oh yes, i should be over it by now :-) hahaha
the mind boggles at the thought of endless thoughts of previous thoughts and future thoughts and thoughts in general....
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