I received a call to adventure this week. Unfortunately, I can live my life remotely, so I’ll barely miss a beat. Just in a different place for a while, and grinding a quest that could insulate me from the horrors of capitalism (if we succeed)
Unless I somehow get isekaid I’ll remain a kitchen npc my whole life
Hey, you! Yeah, you! Start a union at your workplace! Join an anarchist org. Run for local council on an environmental and transit platform. Attend a protest. Paint bike lanes!
More like a proto-agonist
And people act surprised when grown men play computer games.
“Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.”
And antagonist unfortunately….
Antagonist? I barely make the criteria for background extra with one speaking line.
I don’t even make my own iMDB page.
Why you gotta call me out like that?
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nothing wrong with being an unnamed background character.
The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”
I always liked at the end of Starship Troopers it was Zim who ended up capturing the brain bug after taking a demotion to fight on the front lines.
You gotta find your own
This is true and 35 is not too late to.
You can go on adventures at any age as long as you are physically able enough!
And even then the physical requirements are not as harsh as one might think.
You gotta make your own. Pack some stuff, ride your bike and punch some meanies on the way.
Remember when they were calling everyone NPCs as if that wasn’t shameless main character syndrome?
That always really disgusted me. Implying others aren’t human.
Same
Usually, it takes a special situation and Truck-kun to answer the call. Might not be ideal though. Gotta be careful what you wish for.
There are many calls to adventure, but we often don’t heed them because it means discomfort and risk - sometimes to the degree that your long-term survival is jeopardized with few means to mitigate that (valid), other times just because sitting on the couch seems nicer (more often than not, an excuse - but a choice you’re certainly allowed to make).
If your ability to survive by the trial’s end isn’t compromised, I think everyone should choose at least one adventure for themselves, even if it’s something that makes you feel a little like Don Quixote. It at least gives you something to talk about.
First off – haha, I like it.
Second, it reminds me of something I read, but I can’t remember the exact quote, and I’d be grateful to anyone who can figure it out. I’m pretty sure it was Vonnegut, and I think it may have been from Breakfast of Champions. The gist was that most stories are misleading because they teach people that life has a plot – that it has major storylines, minor storylines, and so on. The author (Vonnegut?) then says that really life is just a bunch of moments, each as important or unimportant as the next.
It doesn’t quite sound like BoC unless it’s from the self-insert scene, but it’s definitely in the main themes of Slaughterhouse Five
Gandalf invited Bilbo Baggins on an “adventure” when he was 50, so not everything is lost yet.
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