This is a random page, reflecting the randomness of (my) life.
If you place your cursor over the 'Where in the World?' header on the sidebar, you will find stories: of life on the road (and off it) from once upon a time long ago.
If you place your cursor over the 'Where in the World?' header on the sidebar, you will find stories: of life on the road (and off it) from once upon a time long ago.
"The world’s a headmaster who works on your faults. I don’t mean in a mystical or a Jesus way. More how you’ll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that’s wrong with us, if we’re too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that’s a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn’t such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps. There are always more."
...by David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, 2006.
"The gods have a great sense of humor, don't they? If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.... The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
...by Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume, 1984.
"It looks as if the only way to be happy is to do fully what you are destined for."
...by Francis Chichester, Alone Across The Atlantic, 1961.