...yes, my fictional characters are taking on their own lives.
Your life is never run until you die; every action has meaning, and every moment has purpose. The significance or otherwise of our actions is only rarely ours to judge, and the usefulness is definitely not.
To claim before your life is even a quarter run, that your purposes are fulfilled, is folly when you cannot even fortell what the next day holds. If you feel you have no purpose, then your purpose is to search out a new goal!
To claim that you can only cause suffering is worse, and demonstrably false (Ask tienelle). To live on this world is to suffer; that's pretty much accepted by every religion going and every secular philosopher I'm aware of. But within each human heart and mind is the capacity for boundless joy as well as great suffering. We really are capable of almost anything, if we actually try.
To learn to take joy from each experience, and to share it, is the essence of success in life. Ultimately, life is the pursuit of happiness, and being prepared to attempt the impossible the key to the greatest success in it.
I'm not going to touch the Christian comments; I think Rebecca Borgstrom vaguely addresses them here as to why He would put up with you - it's because He loves you, and that's what lovers do. But I'm a Buddhist, and I restrained the paragraph I'd written on Dukkha, so blowed if I'm going to go on about someone else's religion...
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Adarisa insisted on replying to this....
Date: 2005-02-24 06:47 pm (UTC)From:Your life is never run until you die; every action has meaning, and every moment has purpose. The significance or otherwise of our actions is only rarely ours to judge, and the usefulness is definitely not.
To claim before your life is even a quarter run, that your purposes are fulfilled, is folly when you cannot even fortell what the next day holds. If you feel you have no purpose, then your purpose is to search out a new goal!
To claim that you can only cause suffering is worse, and demonstrably false (Ask
To learn to take joy from each experience, and to share it, is the essence of success in life. Ultimately, life is the pursuit of happiness, and being prepared to attempt the impossible the key to the greatest success in it.
I'm not going to touch the Christian comments; I think Rebecca Borgstrom vaguely addresses them here as to why He would put up with you - it's because He loves you, and that's what lovers do. But I'm a Buddhist, and I restrained the paragraph I'd written on Dukkha, so blowed if I'm going to go on about someone else's religion...