Everything's "old" now...

Before, I used to have this collection of "nuggets of wisdom"; statements that are somehow influential and powerful enough to catch one's attention. I collected such statements, hid them inside my journal, not because I don't want to share it to the public, but rather I want to save it for the years to come, when such statements can be then named after me.

Yes, "ME", for I want to be known for something. I want everybody will look at me and say "Wow! That's one hell of a person.". I want the other people to see me as a creator of something new, something that has never been discovered before, something that will change the way things are now; for that something, is definitely new. In short, I want to impress others; I want them to admire me and thank me for making up something that will brought up a change in our world. That's why I hid them, because I want them to be credited to me, and not to anybody else.

But then I realized, which was somehow reiterated to me in the concept of the importance of the tradition; the significance of the old, that there is no such thing as "new" in this world. Somehow, something came from somewhere or someone in the past, and it can never be a "new" thing for it existed already before, (or maybe even before that 'before'). Well, maybe forgotten, maybe unacknowledged, maybe unknown, but there was. 

That's why, if we are to create something new, we must look back to the past; every nuke and crannies of antiquity and history, for what we might see now as something "new", might actually be something that is already "old and familiar".