Day 12
- During the years I went to school internationally, my class was required to read Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice. Great Expectations I could not stomach. It was so dark and dreary and (spoiler alert!) he doesn't even get the girl.
But Pride and Prejudice. *Sigh*. That book had me hooked. I loved everything about it. The language, the formalities, the characters. Everything about it was so perfect. And I became addicted. I started reading all the classics I could lay my hands on. I breezed through all of Jane Austen, then moved onto the Bronte sisters and eventually because I didn't love the male authors of the time, I moved onto L. M. Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables.
I think I had these books memorized. I loved reading them and wishing I lived back then, in what I liked to think was a simpler time.
What's funny though, is if you compare the literature of then and the literature of now, is that the underlying themes are the same throughout. Love, heartbreak, death, misunderstandings and the downfalls of the tyrants. And if you study history, there really never was a simpler time. Wars, slavery and destruction always were and always will be. Those who lived victorious, prosperous lives are now gone and those who lived in sad, desperate times are as well... So today, #12, I'm grateful for the reminder. It doesn't matter if the current situation is bleak or joyous, nothing lasts forever.
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