sm123
04-28-2013, 05:44 AM
Hi all,
I'm currently just beginning my journey through the Notes from the Underground, and it's already starting to connect with me in ways I hadn't expected. I just wanted to share an excerpt which made me think of something that has bothered me for quite a while:
"With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for themselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed, let us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is nothing else but that feeling left in their whole being. Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him."
This hit home for me because it is something I have always struggled with. I envy those with single-minded determination. Those who, when they are wronged, will stop at nothing in their quest for justice because it is the only thing they can think about.
This is nearly impossible for those that are even a little more...introspective? Reflective? Thoughtful? I'm not too sure of the word. While to be able to be reflective at all is not a bad quality, I long to be able to feel as passionately as these people, to be able to actually act.
I'm sorry, this has turned more into long-winded rambling than anything, but did this excerpt strike up anything in you?
I'm currently just beginning my journey through the Notes from the Underground, and it's already starting to connect with me in ways I hadn't expected. I just wanted to share an excerpt which made me think of something that has bothered me for quite a while:
"With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for themselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed, let us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is nothing else but that feeling left in their whole being. Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him."
This hit home for me because it is something I have always struggled with. I envy those with single-minded determination. Those who, when they are wronged, will stop at nothing in their quest for justice because it is the only thing they can think about.
This is nearly impossible for those that are even a little more...introspective? Reflective? Thoughtful? I'm not too sure of the word. While to be able to be reflective at all is not a bad quality, I long to be able to feel as passionately as these people, to be able to actually act.
I'm sorry, this has turned more into long-winded rambling than anything, but did this excerpt strike up anything in you?