“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next -- if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions -- you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never dare to.” -Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
This is a wise thing to keep in mind, don't you agree?
This is a wise thing to keep in mind, don't you agree?
Yes.
ReplyDeleteVery, very wise.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should bow after reading something like that.
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteI do like this quote, but I guess it was written under the assumption that the consequences of your actions are all going to be bad things... We're human, so we're all doomed from the start. I guess we could go deeper with this, since esentially as human beings, all we do is doomed since our lives will end and so will the lives we create. Dark. Thanks for sharing and spinning my wheels - need it at mid-week!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd get out of bed, but only long enough to win the lottery, play the stock market like a board game, and change the future.
ReplyDeleteI interpreted it to mean, that the unknown is what makes life worth living. If you knew how everything would turn out, there would never be any mystery, no need to seize the day!
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting conundrum, but I suppose it depends on how you view the future. But then we get into the whole predestination discussion/argument, and I'm not really going to go there in public.
ReplyDeleteIf I knew what was going to happen for every consequence I think I'd still do it and not care because I do things just because I can.
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