End of a Fantasy
November 30th 2007 06:34
Staring at the top shelf of my bookcase the other day, I wondered when Robert Jordan was going to publish his next book in The Wheel of Time series. Imagine my shock when I found out he’d died in September.
According to Wikipedia, he’d kept working on his 12th and supposedly final book of the series while on his death bed. I guess he died doing what he loved and wasn’t just writing for a paycheck. How many people would keep working when told they have only a few years or months to live?
How many of us are doing what we love? In work, in relationships, in life generally? We’re all aware of the fact that we won’t last forever, but there are those of us who keep putting things off anyway. Are we just a bunch of procrastinators?
Of course there are many people who haven’t the luxury to ponder upon the brevity of life. But for those of us who do have the choice between living an OK life or a great life, why do some of us settle for the OK one? It makes me think of a snippet of a book a friend insisted that I read:
“…most of us build prisons for ourselves and after we occupy them for a period of time we become accustomed to their walls and accept the false premise that we are incarcerated for life.” *
I wonder how many of what may seem to be mere fantasies can actually be turned into realities.
*Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World, Bantam Books, New York, 1977
According to Wikipedia, he’d kept working on his 12th and supposedly final book of the series while on his death bed. I guess he died doing what he loved and wasn’t just writing for a paycheck. How many people would keep working when told they have only a few years or months to live?
How many of us are doing what we love? In work, in relationships, in life generally? We’re all aware of the fact that we won’t last forever, but there are those of us who keep putting things off anyway. Are we just a bunch of procrastinators?
Of course there are many people who haven’t the luxury to ponder upon the brevity of life. But for those of us who do have the choice between living an OK life or a great life, why do some of us settle for the OK one? It makes me think of a snippet of a book a friend insisted that I read:
“…most of us build prisons for ourselves and after we occupy them for a period of time we become accustomed to their walls and accept the false premise that we are incarcerated for life.” *
I wonder how many of what may seem to be mere fantasies can actually be turned into realities.
*Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World, Bantam Books, New York, 1977
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Comment by Lilla
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I try to each day, but it is hard when we make choices, then grow and move on, but must honour the responsibility of those previous choices, still. Sometimes life is just tough when responsibilities are taken seriously. Personally I try to avoid as many as possible, but realise that in life you cannot avoid them all.
L.
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