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"Sometimes you see the world so clearly... and you know just what to do, and just when to do it... just what you should've done, and when you should've done it..." The Salton Sea
rusty's quotation of the hour
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course." Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous. I'm lucky that at least I have my writing. This is something people can understand. Ah, she left her marriage in order to preserve her art . That's sort of true, though not completely so. A lot of writer's have families...The Bhagavad Gita - that ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
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