Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Protagonists who have something to live for?
War, challenges, quests, dying relatives, damsels, dames, treasures, love, magic, power, wonder, answers, truth, hope, curiosity.
What is it about protagonists who have something to live for that makes them compelling characters?
What is it about characters that don’t?
Which is more realistic?
Is it best to justify actions by their outcomes alone?
One day you’ll be sitting around some afternoon, the taste of lunch on your breath, trees rustling on the blue sky; and suddenly you’ll know for sure that nothing special is in store for you.
Is it best to justify actions by their outcomes alone?
Is it ever appropriate to behold people to prove their worth? Worthiness?
Is it good to feel good?
“Do you like music?” Dr. Robert asked.
“More than most things.”
“And what, may I ask, does Mozart’s G-Minor Quintet refer to? Does it refer to Allah? Or Tao? Or the second person of the Trinity? Or the Arman-Brahman?”
Will laughed. “Let’s hope not.”
“But that doesn’t make the experience of the G-Minor Quintet any less rewarding. Well, it’s the same with the kind of experience that you get with the moksha-medicine…”
- Aldous Huxley, Island (1962)
One thing a hippie I know says sometimes is, “It’s good to feel good.”
Is it good to feel good?
What percent of the time should life seem difficult?
What percent of the time should life seem difficult?
