On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:23:25 -0800, Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe it's the unspoken thought? There, in 25 years or so, go you? > Maybe you sense the loss of independence they exhibit, en masse? > They seem to be on a tour of some sort, perhaps sponsered by the local > senior citizen's group. > Maybe it's the fact that they're sitting there, dutifully eating their > box lunches without any obvious person-to-person interaction. No > conversation between any of them, just fueling up, while maintaining > some dignity in it all... > > "Sighhh. I was told to get out and go on this trip and mingle with > people, and enjoy myself, so here I am. But I don't know anyone and I'm > not having much fun...and there's no-one I know that I want to talk to." > > That's what I see in it. Kind of sad, in a way. I see no smiles there... > Yeah, I think it's all that, Keith. As I read your post, I realized that it was the fact that they're all (apparently) part of a tour or excursion, they're all together (it seems), but there's no communication visible between or among them. It just seems that their lives are so empty. I think it's the whole "circle of life" thing, sort of like the Riddle of the Sphynx. When we're little, in nursery school or kindergarten, we're shuttled about in groups to places we don't choose to go to (someone else tells us where and when to go). Then, when we do get our independence, we think, "That's it, I'm my own man now, I can do whatever I want from now on". But many don't realize that as we age, it's possible to lose that independence, as it seems these people have. Very unsettling, but well communicated in the photo in question. cheer, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
