The Better Story
A few days ago, I wrote about my relationship with the Moon when I was a child (see "Luna Lunera"). In my post, I described how every night, before going to bed, I would sing to the Moon as a sort of prayer for it to guard my sleep. I was convinced that the Moon looked over me because no matter where I went, she was always there in the sky, "following" me. She was my Guardian Angel.
Some time after writing that, I remembered Yann Martel's book Life of Pi and his concept of choosing the "better story". In my case, the better story certainly consists of believing that the Moon is my friend, and therefore, that it follows me. "Dry, yeast-less factuality", as Martel calls it, impoverishes our imagination, thus making us miss the better story. And so, in order to adapt to the established world-view, we loose our depth of character and become irrevocably ordinary.
Children always tell the better story.
Some time after writing that, I remembered Yann Martel's book Life of Pi and his concept of choosing the "better story". In my case, the better story certainly consists of believing that the Moon is my friend, and therefore, that it follows me. "Dry, yeast-less factuality", as Martel calls it, impoverishes our imagination, thus making us miss the better story. And so, in order to adapt to the established world-view, we loose our depth of character and become irrevocably ordinary.
Children always tell the better story.
No doubt.
I've heard some great ones in my time, with three in particular that when I have the time, I may try and turn into a children's book - one of those sorts of ambitions, one has no idea whether one would actually be able to do/be good at.
The moon is magical to any child - but you are right, unless one has a passion for astronomy, later on it is just something that hangs there looking pretty and lighting up the sky.
i didn't think about the moon the way u look to it ....yea he may be ur friend and follow u evry where cos ur heart always with him 2:)