Will's memory from Ted Low on Vimeo.
“What was once before you an exciting and mysterious future is now behind you. Lived, understood, disappointing. You realise you are not special. You have struggled into existence and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone’s experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone is everyone, so you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive, you are Ellen. All her meagre sadnesses are yours, all her loneliness, the grey straw like hair, her red raw hands, it’s yours. It is time for you to understand this…
Walk.
As the people who adore stop adoring you, as they die, as they move on, as you shed them, as you shed your beauty, your youth, as the world forgets you, as you recognise your transience, as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one, as you learn there is no one watching… and there never was. You think only about driving. Not coming from any place, not arriving any place… just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, it’s 7.43. Now you are here, it’s 7.44. Now you are… gone.”
Walk.
As the people who adore stop adoring you, as they die, as they move on, as you shed them, as you shed your beauty, your youth, as the world forgets you, as you recognise your transience, as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one, as you learn there is no one watching… and there never was. You think only about driving. Not coming from any place, not arriving any place… just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, it’s 7.43. Now you are here, it’s 7.44. Now you are… gone.”