I don't know..that line from "You've Got Mail" always haunts me. I don't know if you've watched it, but at one point the love-interest lady is having a conversation with the love-interest man, Tom Hanks, about books, and she writes that she's always experiencing things and being reminded of what she's read in books, and she wonders if it shouldn't be the other way around. Living far from any major urban center, surrounded by little else but pine forests, cow ranches, and swamps, I have to do most of my living vicariously. I'm concerned that I do TOO much living vicariously, though, that I'm not getting out there and doing all the things I'm interested in.
Of course, many of the things I find fascinating -- trolleys and triremes, say -- are no longer around for me to interact with. :p
Oh, there's nothing wrong with living vicariously - as long as it isn't interfering too much with your 'real' life. Of course if you don't *have* a real life any potential conflict vanishes in a puff of imaginary smoke [grin]. I don't know what I'd do without being able to live in my books. I honestly believe that it has made me a better and a stronger person because I've 'experienced' so much that other people have no idea even exists. As you say where else can you sail across the Med in a Trireme rigged for battle? I'm too old to think about holding out for a Holodeck.
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I don't know..that line from "You've Got Mail" always haunts me. I don't know if you've watched it, but at one point the love-interest lady is having a conversation with the love-interest man, Tom Hanks, about books, and she writes that she's always experiencing things and being reminded of what she's read in books, and she wonders if it shouldn't be the other way around. Living far from any major urban center, surrounded by little else but pine forests, cow ranches, and swamps, I have to do most of my living vicariously. I'm concerned that I do TOO much living vicariously, though, that I'm not getting out there and doing all the things I'm interested in.
Of course, many of the things I find fascinating -- trolleys and triremes, say -- are no longer around for me to interact with. :p
Oh, there's nothing wrong with living vicariously - as long as it isn't interfering too much with your 'real' life. Of course if you don't *have* a real life any potential conflict vanishes in a puff of imaginary smoke [grin]. I don't know what I'd do without being able to live in my books. I honestly believe that it has made me a better and a stronger person because I've 'experienced' so much that other people have no idea even exists. As you say where else can you sail across the Med in a Trireme rigged for battle? I'm too old to think about holding out for a Holodeck.
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