May I never be content.
May I never be perfect.
Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
I really like this passage because I feel like this is the narrator's tone in the majority of the book. I feel like he is always doubting himself and relying on Tyler to save him. He always says "I know this because Tyler knows this." I think that he is upset and not comfortable with himself so he relies on Tyler for his happiness.
One of the things I underlined was on page 22 near the middle of the page "This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." I like this quote because sometime it takes forgetting everything and not letting anything bother you for you to feel free and not stressed. There are so many things that can take over your life and just take away from you being yourself. In this situation I think that he is saying that him being able to just forget about everything is freeing him and making him less worried and insecure. If you have hope in something and it isn't happening and it looks like it isn't ever going to happen that hope will over ride you and make you feel like thats all your living for, and you miss out on so many other good aspects of life because you were so focused on that one thing. That is what I think the narorater was thinking when he said this.
I think I need to take this into my own life. I'm always stressed about the stupidest things and having no fun. I can relate to the narrator.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting connection, Christian, between "hope" and the kind of everyday responsibilities and obligations we face (the sort of thing Bekah is referencing). I'm still not sure if this is anything more than a riff on an old Janis Joplin song, but let's see where this goes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post!