Imagine, people have been walking these streets for 8000 years!
+ Not these streets. The city has been built and rebuilt multiple times in those years.
Sure, but there have been people right here during those years.
+ Here? The Earth rotates, the sun orbits the galaxy, the galaxy moves, the…
I mean this place on Earth. It makes you think. We are just flitting through while people have been here for hundreds of generations. You seem to have no concept of “Deep Time”.
+ Me? I talk about billions of years, you talk thousands.
That’s why I hate traveling with an astrophysicist!
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word count = 100
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I guess putting things in perspective depends on your perspective. We need the historians and the astrophysicists as well as the story tellers to translate for mere mortals!
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There is looking at the big picture and looking at the BIG picture – sometimes we need both, as well as the details, but sometimes that shift of perspective may seem a little incompatible…
Thanks.
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Interdisciplinary relationships can be challenging but also illuminating.
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Yes. I think these two are used to it and use it as a running joke.
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I’m a soft touch for time travel stories. It’s all a matter of perspective. Good story.
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Hi Lisa. Not really a time travel story, more a story on thinking about time when traveling. That city has been occupied for 8000 years, which can be mind boggling… unless you are used to working in billions of years ;)
Thanks.
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In the playground of my mind it’s about time travel :) You’re welcome.
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lol, the reader can interpret a story any way they want in “the playground of their minds” 🙂
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My brother is an astrophysicist – not romantic at all, not practical and quite often a pain in the you know where 🤣
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lol – Could you see your brother taking on the role of the astrophysicist in this story? I know a few scientists and some are like that, but there are others that are very romantic. Either that or they are “nerds” in the best sense – they get super excited about things most people think are boring and are bored by things most people think exciting….
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So true 🙌
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LOL. I bet that kind of teasing isn’t new to them.
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I’m guessing it is like a running joke where ever they are or whatever they are doing..
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Super cute story but actually has a cosmic point to make!
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It’s always good to look at the big picture, but sometimes it is fun to look at the BIG picture ;) Thanks.
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Ha! Well done.
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Thanks.
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This was an old structure. . Very creative and historic. Anita
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I read that people had been living on the site since the neolithic, so very old city. Thanks.
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I bet these two have had many conversations similar to this. Personally, I enjoyed it very much. Kudos.
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I’m sure there have been many variations on that theme and it is as much a running joke as a serious conversation… Thanks.
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Dear Trent,
I imgagine life would be challenging with an astrophyisicist. I’m a hopeless romantic myself. These ruins were amazing. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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If the astrophysicist keeps bringing up the biggest picture, yes, it could be difficult… Although I love astrophysics, I also love ruins. This does look like a wonderful place and I’m sure my romantic side would come out if I ever visited.
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I think I’m married to that astrophysicist :). That conversation was way too familiar!
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lol, maybe he’s a closeted astrophysicist… I can be – I watch a lot of physics and astrophysics videos on YouTube – but I am not quite this much of a spoilsport.
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He’s math/science guy with an engineer brain. I’m a words/history person who loves teaching and writing. And we’re still together for nearly 54 years :)
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Sometimes opposites attract… Or is it more that you complement each other? Actually, that is like my parents (who have been together 65 years), and I’m a product of it – I am a math and science nerd but also deeply into the arts and love history.
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65 years! Amazing! I do believe opposites attract; that’s the “zing” that sets off the relationship. The prize, though, is in keeping that “zing” alive for the duration :)
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65 years – yep, my dad just turned 90, so it is all pretty amazing :)
Great that you can still keep that zing after 54 years! 🙂
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Its funny how different people perceive the same things, its what makes the world go round, although your astrophysicist would probably beg to differ…
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lol, I am sure the astrophysicist would beg to differ… But perhaps we could get them to agree that it does make for a much more interesting world than if everyone conformed in everything.
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Gosh, you character is like my kids … you can’t let you get away with saying anything! I felt the frustration, but also – I hope – the love between these two.
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I think frustration and love mixed in would be pretty close to describing that conversation. And, yes, I have known (been?) kids like that.,,,
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I love the image in the photo prompt. Your response to it made me smile. Hahaha. Nicely written.
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It is a great photo – I love ruins and exploring the past through them. Thanks, re: the story :)
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Some people have no sense of atmosphere and mystique!
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Yep, I think that should have been character 1’s point instead of talking “deep time”.
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