So last night, I got to thinking.

[Babyjustrun]

So last night I came home from babysitting and my parents weren't home yet, so I decided to watch the Titanic for like the 895839085903 time. Because it just doesn't get old.
Anyways, near the end, there's a part...

Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack... there's no record of him at all.

Old Rose: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now... Not to anyone... Not even your grandfather... A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory.

It's that last bit that I bolded that made me think. Think of all the people we never hear about. People who lived in the past, but never had a record on them. People who were never photographed, never remembered in some way.
I mean, isn't their story important too? But we'll never know, because most of them are simply a memory in an old man or woman's mind, and once said person is gone...
It's like as the person is no longer there. The person who held record of them in their memory is no longer there to tell us that persons story.
It's just kind of sad. History and stuff only makes us remember the big stories, the catastrophes, but rarely the people who had to live through it.

 

[OneTreeHill]

Wow.
I never thought of it that way. It's true though.
All those people who lived through terrible things, that were never remembered.
And not just those people, but the people who lived everyday life, that are not remembered.
It's crazy to think about that, but it's true. All those people who lived, but we never even knew about.

 

[Ampris]

I know. It's hard to contemplate sometimes, that there are all those people out there who have stories to tell, observations to make, opinions they feel, and they'll never be remembered or known for anything but the biggest events. They live their lives, have their own monumentous events, but in the end mean next nothing to the people who come after them. I get so sad thinking about the people I know who have seen and been through SO much in their lives, and those experiences, the memories, will be gone when they are.

 

[DramaQueen]

ahhhh Titanic, so full of philosophies of life.

I got to thinking about that when I went to that Titanic exhibit on Thursday actually.
The name on the card that I had was one I had never heard before.
ANd I really started to wonder about her and what happened to her after she was rescued.
At the end there was a memorial wall to all those who died, there was over 1,500 names on that wall!!!!!!!!

But I am such an empathetic person and when I hear of tragedies and catastrophes, I always think of the people and their families. Makes me sad.

But c'est la vie I suppose.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Mm, just watching the movie, when they're moving the bodies out of their way so they can try to find people who are alive.
It made me wonder.
Who are those people? Where were they from?

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

I hate that.
It makes me sad and curious.
We learn so much about the terrible people, that we never have time to learn about random people, ACTUAL normal people like you and me (who actually are..and not people who CLAIM they are normal)
Its depressing.

 

[AbsoluteAwesome1]

Very 1984.
Ever read it?
YOU WILL.

 

[Disney.Ears]

Wow.
That really got my mind thinking about stuff. Especially with things from history's past. Like how do we REALLY know that there are people from the past. But I guess that could work against me because I believe in God but I don't want to start that fight again. But I guess sometimes the only way we know is by written records? I don't know...

 

[STOPxmickeytime]

That's pretty terrible.
But honestly, I think it's worse when people are remembered BECAUSE of the catastrophe they lived or died through, rather than in spite of.

I mean, imagine, you were on board the Titanic, and you died.
From then on, no matter where people see your name, it will read "Titanic passenger" next to it.

So, instead of the person you were, or the things you did, you're simply remembered for taking a voyage on a boat?
It just seems really unfair to me.

 

[DramaQueen]

That's pretty terrible.
But honestly, I think it's worse when people are remembered BECAUSE of the catastrophe they lived or died through, rather than in spite of.

I mean, imagine, you were on board the Titanic, and you died.
From then on, no matter where people see your name, it will read "Titanic passenger" next to it.

So, instead of the person you were, or the things you did, you're simply remembered for taking a voyage on a boat?
It just seems really unfair to me.

ITA

I was doing a project on Lady Lucy Duff Gordon (for a fashion class project in grade 11) who was a VERY influential fashion designer (said to be the first to have runway shows & models) and though there was some info about her as a fashion designer, almost every source was focussed on how she was a Titanic survivor.