The reading was indeed challenging, however, I was struck by the idea of revolution in everyday life. Lefebvre says on age 28 that vital consequences of history are forcefully brought into the everyday life; men are no longer equipped to live as before. The everyday and the historical come together at this moment, and even overlap, but in the dynamic and fiercely negative review which history makes of the everyday.A revolution is sort of an inevitable change, I decided similar to evolution. For example, the evolution of technology has resulted in better, more advanced solutions (or unnecessary disillusions depending on who you ask) to our daily routines; evolution REQUIRES revolution! Everyday is not dormant or stationary; we might think of it as simple and fixed, but it is complex and shifting, constantly repositioning and progressing. As much as we like to think everyday doesn't transform, because our lives are the same and boring and routine, it is quietly continually moving in a different direction, changing the fundamentals of our lives, and as a result, recreating history.
The view of the mountain might look the same as you gaze upon it routinely from your balcony, but every second, that scene is changing. The sun will shine brighter and softer, clouds will have swirled, expanded, and diminished, and the water and life existing in the surrounding ocean will have been destroyed and at once reborn. The overall picture will remain the same…the greenery might fade, the rain might start to fall, but the majestic mountain will still be there tomorrow. However, it will never be precisely the same mountain you saw before; the mountain itself will have aged, and thus, changed. Blind to the naked eye, but big or small, nothing ever stays the same.
It is important to note, though, that even if a thing will undoubtedly, absolutely, concretely change, memories are forever. "I see you, as I did yesterday, beautiful, astonishingly beautiful." Honore de Balzac
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