Today is the birthday of author Bobbie Ann Mason. Like Alex R., she seems to frame her worldview in a literary way. In her memoir Clear Springs, she writes:
I think it's a natural impulse to want to find some kind of coherence and meaning in your life, to find that it has a narrative, and that there are patterns. There are themes in your life, and themes that connect back to previous generations. You can see where you fit into the puzzle. Your life starts to make sense, in terms of what you've done before and what you're doing now.
2 comments:
The love of the story is the only thing that keeps me enjoying life. I like this quote
I totally agree with what she is saying. People just don't want to believe that we are just living organisms on a planet in a giant galaxy. How can that be? We are capable of so much? [what...reproducing???] What is the point of curing diseases and making profits to make a life......comfortable?
That is how I think religion started. People believing that life is worth it, that there will be a "prize". It's just too hard of a concept to believe that we are just little dots on a large scale.
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