you combine words. you make a sentence. how many possibilities in millions of people and millions of words that this sentence has already been created, your thought has already been put into words (maybe even by you long time ago)? you know the chance is pretty high. still you say it, you create your sentence. do you do it because you really need to say it? do you do it because you are yet to find this one out of the millions who already said it? or do you actually think that nobody else has said it the exact way you need to say it right now?
ты складываешь слова. ты составляешь предложение. как много возможностей в миллионах людей и миллионах слов, что это предложение уже было придумано, твоя мысль уже была облачена в слова (может даже тобой когда-то давно)? ты знаешь, шанс достаточно большой. тем не менее ты говоришь его, ты составляешь свое предложение. ты делаешь это потому что тебе очень нужно это сказать? ты делаешь это потому что ты пока не нашел среди миллионов, того, кто уже это сказал? или ты на самом деле думаешь, что никто другой еще не сказал это таким образом, как тебе это нужно сказать сейчас?
Very interesting post. I've often thought this myself. There's a line in a song from the Broadway show Sunday In The Park with George, where one character says
ReplyDelete"everything's all been said"
and another replies
"not by you" or something like that
So even if the words are the same, or the idea has been thought before, we all bring our own lense to it.
However, a lot hasn't been said, done, even thought. I rememebr reading that somenthing like 90% of the searches on Yahoo! on any give day are BRAND NEW searches, never entered before. So people are coming up with new things to say do and think every day, especcially as society changes and the discussion changes, and you change in relation to everything around you.
90% new searches surprise me. maybe that's because of news.. like people hear something new on tv etc, and they go search for it.. still 90% seems strange.
ReplyDeleteI know, I found it very strange too, and I don't remember the exact % so I could be exaggerating but I remember thinking it was something shocking.
ReplyDeleteIt probably is driven by news, but still, it seems like even on a given news days, people would generally search for the same thing