{"id":1950,"date":"2010-02-25T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2010-02-25T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:49:00","slug":"living-a-life-different-enough-to-be-worth-writing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/02\/25\/living-a-life-different-enough-to-be-worth-writing-about\/","title":{"rendered":"living a life different enough to be worth writing about"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/2483668717\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2400\/2483668717_03f1d608f9.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/2483668717\/\">china 2005<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/pilgrimgirl\/\">pilgrimgirl<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> I&#8217;ve been attempting to articulate a particular feeling for several days now, and here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhum.com\/features\/speakers-corner\/inspiration-travel-writing-and-lesprit-frondeur-20100216\/\">Jeffrey Tayler has done it so well<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you had 99 lives, what would you do with them? With the one life you have, what will you do that will be different and exciting, worthy of recounting in print? If you\u2019re short on ideas, as I was, let the protagonists of novels and short stories show you how to live; let the great writers, with their imagined plots and characters, introduce you to new paths in real life. I don\u2019t necessarily mean milquetoast paths, easy ways out. So, if you\u2019ve read \u201cA Bend in the River,\u201d let Salim the Indian trader, who came up from the coast to open a shop on the Congo River, show you what you can do when you have nowhere else to go. Let Georges Duroy, the pitiless hero of Maupassant\u2019s \u201cBel-Ami,\u201d show you what you can do if you arrive penniless in Paris. \u201cThe Sheltering Sky\u201d might serve as your guide to Morocco, Jack Kerouac\u2019s \u201cOn the Road\u201d to the U.S. The point is that great writers and their works can provide blueprints for changes in our lives. They can teach us about how many possible ways ahead there are, both good and bad. And bad is not as bad as all that. Remember, for a writer, adversity makes good subject material.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist of \u201cThe Death of Ivan Il\u2019ich\u201d died moaning, in agony, overcome with the realization that he had wasted his days on earth following social conventions. He lacked l\u2019esprit frondeur, and he paid for it. Conventions now are hardly less pervasive than they were in Tolstoy\u2019s day; we\u2019re pressured to start a career, build our r\u00e9sum\u00e9, earn a certain amount of money, and so forth. But remember: None of us gets out of here alive. So don\u2019t fear risks. Rebel. Be bold, try hard, and embrace adversity; let both success and failure provide you with unique material for your writing, let them give you a life different enough to be worth writing about.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Picture from my trip to China a few years ago&#8211;a charming round &#8220;hobbit door&#8221; that I discovered in a garden.  What a wonderful adventure that was!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>china 2005, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. I&#8217;ve been attempting to articulate a particular feeling for several days now, and here Jeffrey Tayler has done it so well. If you had 99 lives, what would you do with them? 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