The first thing I think when I'm around all the old buildings and ruins is "please don't fall on me." Then I get a little more of that nostalgic feeling. You know that "oh wow" feeling where you realize that some of these buildings have been around for soooooo long. The real Julius Ceaser was here, walked here, even more importantly died and was cremated right where I'm looking. Then I start to think about what the Empire State building will look like in 2,000 years. Or better yet what my house or brand new high school will look like in a long time. Not even 2,000 years but 200 years. Will it even still be there? This is about the time where my vivid imagination takes flight and I wonder about flying cars and the crazy modern buildings that will replace the buildings I see everyday. I start to ask questions about the people in 2,000 years. Will they be looking at our buildins in awe the way I'm looking at the Arch of Titus or the Colosseum? I would imagine prob not. But who knows?
On top of the mushy gushy nostalgic stuff I am amazed at their ability to build such amazing, durable structures with nearly no technology. Certainly nothing like ours. We have learned so much from our ancestors yet we have new buildings fall apart everyday. Things are always needing fixed and houses that are 10 yrs old are condemned lying in disrepair. How did they do that? ha Like the basilica in the Forum there are those marks from the ropes where the soldiers tried to tear it down. Crazy. We could learn something from them on building things to last.
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Well Keri... I LOVE the blog title :-)! I am on the same page with you. When I thought about how old the ruins are, I wondered if our modern buildings would stand the test of time in the next thousands of years. I tried to imagine if New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, and cities of the like would still look similar to how they look today. After careful thought, I decided that they would look nowhere near the way they look now. Newer buildings are not built to be withstanding and beautiful for years to come; I feel like they are "thrown up" so often and that they lack the careful construction that the Romans put into their works. Also, I agree with your amazement at how the Roman ruins were built with barely any technology. Modern buildings are put together using all of the technology in the world, yet their magnificence does not come close to the brilliance of the Roman structures.
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