The purpose of life...

[fajrdrako]

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown.

Yes, but it's sometimes easier said than done.

Comments

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

*sigh* indeed

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

...But where would we be without challenges?

Maybe in a better place. It's hard to know where to see the balance.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I don't want challenges!! I feel like lying down and let them pass...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't want challenges either. But I've never met anyone whose life wasn't full of them.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

Babies do it, but then we load them up with guilt.
I wonder when I will have paid enough to be allowed to be properly happy again.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear from you!

Yeah, babies do it. And I do it, sometimes. It just seems that there are so many things to stop us from doing it: at some point it isn't easy any more.

Which is a shame.

Makes me want to fix the world, you know?

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I have to respectfully disagree with Ms. Brown. For me, the only reason to be alive is to have mattered. To have left my mark. Otherwise, why bother?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What kind of mark do you want to leave?

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I don't have children, so I'm not leaving my genes behind.

I just don't want to be forgotten after I'm gone. I need to be remembered by more than my friends.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Your comments about being remembered make me think of classical literature - works like The Iliad where one's memory, after one's death, is all one will have. And the sense of reputation: deeds live on long after the person.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I suppose so.

[vervassal.livejournal.com]

Hey, have you been watching BBC's Merlin? You might like it- it's by the same people who did Torchwood, and Arthur is a dead ringer for a young Lymond. It's cheesy, but in a good way (caveat: throw everything you know about Arthurian canon out the window!).

So, uh. Just wanted to recommend that to you! :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Merlin yet, but I'd like to. Because at least in theory, I like Arthurian stories.

Arthur is a dead ringer for a young Lymond.

That in itself would make it fun!

Thanks for the rec.