Suggestions for enjoying Changeling (or anything else in life...)

[teleidoplex]

"...inconvenience, as I have said, is only one aspect, and that the most unimaginative and accidental aspect of a really romantic situation. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..."

--G.K. Chesterton, "All Things Considered"



So, thanks to Neil Gaiman's blog, I ended up tracking down an oft-misquoted passage by G.K. Chesterton because it seemed to address a lot of people's dissatisfaction with life right now, and a basic philosophy of mine that I tend to call "Charmed Life". I have a charmed life because I tend to view inconveniences as adventures. Not all the time, but I try. Life is a WIP, after all. I highly recommend this approach to others.

The full text of "All Things Considered" may be found below, along with a bunch of Chesterton's other works. Gotta love the web!

http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/

Comments

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

Chesterton, like many other things I have commented upon in the last week, is da bomb diggity.

I still need to lend you The Ballad of the White Horse, don't I? Actually, I still need to let bneuensc read it, too. Hmm.

It's also worth mentioning that I'm listening to his biography of Thomas Aquinas in the car. It's a little dense, but his prose is brilliant.

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: "How splendid is the Adventure!"

[bneuensc.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You do.

[regohemia.livejournal.com]

There was a quote in one of the Robotech: Sentinels novels about an alien species called the Garuda... I can't quite remember it exactly, but it was to the effect of...

...if you were to draw and quarter a Garudan, before he expired, while his limbs were still being torn from his body, his last breath would be spent thanking the universe for such a unique experience.

Perhaps a touch more extreme in sentiment, its what it reminded me of.

Also, K, what image is that icon from?

-Me

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Man, I loved those books when I was younger.

It's a pic of Xorn from Morrison's run on X-Men. The cover of one of the last 6 issues or so, I think.

Charmed life indeed.

[kaishakunin.livejournal.com]

I haven't thought about "Charmed Life" in quite some time though I still do think I lead one. The reminder warms my heart. I'm glad that you lead a charmed life as well.