There's a slightly overused parable about some ancient chinese farmer and his apparent stoicism towards fate. He loses a horse and in turn makes everybody wonder why he doesn't seem stressed about it. His response? You never know. Later the lost horse returns, with a bunch of wild ones in tow. But the farmer doesn't feel like celebrating either. Because, you never know. Then his son gets bucked and breaks his leg. Same answer, you just never know. Ultimately the army rolls into town and drafts all the young men, but sparing the injured son. You never know, and so on and so on.
Judging from the story life seems like a neverending cascade of therefor and thens. Things go up, things go down, but you never what what stroke of fate might turn out to be a blessing in disguise and vice versa. I figure the morale of the story isn't exactly about being comfortably numb, but not going crazy in the face of change. That said, I like the whole Dylan Thomas thing about raging against the dying of the light. On the other hand, the sun doesn't care about a rooster standing on a dung heap, burning and raving at close of day. It's romantic, but there's things that can't be changed by sentiment, or attitude for that matter. Doesn't matter how strong you feel about it. Your feelings won't stop the sun from setting.
Oh by the way, your text reminded me of that old Kenny Rogers song that used gambling as a metaphor for life:
Wow, couldn’t have been said better. I’m guessing your first paragraph is how she feels when she accepts her fate. On the line of stoicism, she did come off as emotionless in the show.
Oh I’ve heard a snippet of this song before, never the full version though. Pretty good messaging. Thanks for the reply!
My pleasure!
And hey, do you remember the title of the show? You mentioned some details but no names. I would like to check it out.
My bad. Samurai champloo, it’s an anime. The scenes I refer to happens in Ep 20 and 21. The show is only one season but I don’t think you need to watch the previous episodes to get the gist of things. Each episode is pretty self contained. It’s a great show though if you’re in for it.
No worries :-)
I'm not super big into anime but Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop are great. Space Dandy, too. Rewatched a few episodes a week or two ago. Mainly the baseball game and the one with the mushrooms. There was another show I liked... What was the name... Paranoia Agent. That's it.
Keep writing!
emotionless? Doesn't that say it all?
I read you but for now I 'm not going to answer since you are already in a great chat and I still have a lot to type. A great weekend to you!
You too :-)!