To me, the highest form of living is to be adaptable to change in a way that benefits yourself and others as much as possible; a sense of unerring balance vis-a-vis life and the Universe.
Change _is_.
The art of life is using that change without undue effort.
It is the major theme of Sandman, after all: Dream is aware that many of his perceived obligations are self-imposed and not real, but is still fundamentally unable to change himself (or to opt out of the game, as Destruction does) - as Lucien says of Dream's effective suicide;
'I think he did a little more than let it happen... Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.'
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:34 am (UTC)Change _is_.
The art of life is using that change without undue effort.
It is the major theme of Sandman, after all: Dream is aware that many of his perceived obligations are self-imposed and not real, but is still fundamentally unable to change himself (or to opt out of the game, as Destruction does) - as Lucien says of Dream's effective suicide;
'I think he did a little more than let it happen... Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.'