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dear_mun2012-07-19 07:37 am
forthegreatergood) wrote in dear_mun2012-07-19 07:37 am
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Dearest Narration,
"It's only hubris if I fail." A prideful statement to be certain, but none the less a true one, yes? To believe in one's self and triumph is a story everyone loves to tell, success against all odds, all it takes is a dream and a wish on the evening star. To fail is a cautionary tale about pride and folly, however. In the end the actual circumstances change not a bit, all that matters is the end result. Success is praised, failure is condemned, and in the end history is written by the winners in the blood of those they have defeated.
Courage and ambition are not as different as certain British schools would have our children believe. Perhaps not twins, but at the very least estranged brothers of one another, still related no matter how much both would wish otherwise. Ambition advances courage, courage advances ambition, and in the end it comes down to whether or not you stay the course even if the face of epic defeat, or decide that discretion is the better part of valor and to make your dreams a reality you must live to fight another day, as distasteful as a minor setback is. Lose the battle to win the war.
Too much faith is put in talking garments, and it seems a bit too much like a horcrux when you get right down to it. That begs the question if a single item can bear more than one soul - if that's the case than it has four halves within it - effectively two whole souls. Depending on the measure of man we go by, it would be more human than the rest of us. Disturbing as it doesn't even have a brain in the technical sense.
Enter now the self-defined heroes, full of self-righteousness and short-sighted courage, ready to tell off the cruel and ignoble villain, all of them ignorant on history itself and thus by Clio's own hand (attended she by Thalia and Melpomene) written to repeat it until they learn. They never do. How does your modern saying go, Narration? "This is why we can't have nice things.", I will always be besieged upon all sides by enemies of my ambitions aside from my Albus. This we know, you and I.
- G.G.
"It's only hubris if I fail." A prideful statement to be certain, but none the less a true one, yes? To believe in one's self and triumph is a story everyone loves to tell, success against all odds, all it takes is a dream and a wish on the evening star. To fail is a cautionary tale about pride and folly, however. In the end the actual circumstances change not a bit, all that matters is the end result. Success is praised, failure is condemned, and in the end history is written by the winners in the blood of those they have defeated.
Courage and ambition are not as different as certain British schools would have our children believe. Perhaps not twins, but at the very least estranged brothers of one another, still related no matter how much both would wish otherwise. Ambition advances courage, courage advances ambition, and in the end it comes down to whether or not you stay the course even if the face of epic defeat, or decide that discretion is the better part of valor and to make your dreams a reality you must live to fight another day, as distasteful as a minor setback is. Lose the battle to win the war.
Too much faith is put in talking garments, and it seems a bit too much like a horcrux when you get right down to it. That begs the question if a single item can bear more than one soul - if that's the case than it has four halves within it - effectively two whole souls. Depending on the measure of man we go by, it would be more human than the rest of us. Disturbing as it doesn't even have a brain in the technical sense.
Enter now the self-defined heroes, full of self-righteousness and short-sighted courage, ready to tell off the cruel and ignoble villain, all of them ignorant on history itself and thus by Clio's own hand (attended she by Thalia and Melpomene) written to repeat it until they learn. They never do. How does your modern saying go, Narration? "This is why we can't have nice things.", I will always be besieged upon all sides by enemies of my ambitions aside from my Albus. This we know, you and I.
- G.G.