Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
I have tried prudent planning long enough.
From now on, I'll be mad.
~ Rumi
Yes, well, as has been noted, talk is cheap. Those words sound brave, but when the heat is on, experience suggests people head the direction of prudent safety rather than courageous madness.
4 comments:
That doesn't sound like last words to me at all, this sounds more like the start of great adventure, of course the first step can be the scariest. Mybae I'll replace the Poe quote with Rumi's on my grave, only time will tell...
I'd like to read it in the just the way you describe it - I can embrace its sentiment, but sometimes fear paralyzes many - even me! So here's to living courageously.
Frodo and Sam on adventures (The Two Towers - Tolkein p. 378 approx.):
"And we shouldn't be here at all if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo; adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of sort, as you might say. but that's not the way of it with the tales that really matter, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same - like old Mr. Bilbo. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! 'I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into?'"
"I wonder," said Frodo. "but I don't know. And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know...And you don't want them to...Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on."
"Don't the great tales ever end?"
"No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "but the people in them come and go when their part's ended..."
Thankfully, God knows the story and my part in it. To God be the glory.
Susan
Love that quote.
It's like being a writer--jumping off in the deep end, & not even being sure you can swim.
I might rip this one off for my blog sometime.
And I like the Frodo & Sam passage too.
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