Monday, July 8, 2019

Drawn to:

There's always been certain things that happened in history... Before I was born... That have always captured my attention.  Not only in idle interest, but a full feeling of being deeply drawn and attracted to something... Some event... That for some reason out weights anything else. Similar events hold only a mere interest while there seems to be some supernatural attraction to particular event.
That sense of going some place for the first time and not only knowing what's around the corner,  but the overwhelming feeling of having been there before. A faint since of seeing, feeling, hearing, and even smelling something from long ago. An odd feeling when you see or even touch something related to the event.  A sense like owning or experiencing something of that event, as if you did, first hand, in person.  Like it's been lurking in the shadows of your mind and you get faint visions or feelings. Things that happened decades before you were born...perhaps even more than 200 years ago.
So how do you explain it? One theory is that it's locked in your DNA, passed down from ancestors... And your mind releases faint glimpses and feelings of an dramatic event experienced by those generations before you. Possibly true,  since science can not explain this phenomenon... and your DNA contains billions of bits of information... 90% of which is a total mystery and unknown. Who knows?
In any event, one of those historical events that I've always been drawn to was the Titanic disaster. Others include the Revolutionary War battle and surrender at Yorktown Virginia. And certain places like the Virginia mountains. As well as certain country side locations in Ireland and Irish folklore and music. And no... I don't have read hair.  Why? Idoeno!
Nevertheless,  here's some of the photos of the Titanic that conjure up deep feelings.