(OM) 16. Fictional Places
If you could live in any fictional place, where/when/what would it be?
As two young friends of mine recently pointed out, our fleet is caught between the historical and the legendary. We've lost our home, the Twelve Colonies that were in fact, now reduced to distant ruins and memories. We seek the Thirteenth Colony, the Earth that might be, but we're not one hundred percent certain. Neither one is fictional in the strictest sense of the word, though they surely might as well be to young people who have never experienced the former and aren't sure they believe in the latter.
I have experienced, and I do believe. What then would be my ideal fictional world?
It would be so very easy to choose some glittering, fantastical utopia from books or vids, a place without want or war or hatred. Given our current difficulties, though, I'd prefer to opt for something a little more ... well, achievable. Really, I could be happy living almost anywhere, as long as that anywhere had one quality.
Peace.
Not perfect, absolute peace, mind you. Not only does that take us right back to the unachievable, but we humans seem to create more than our share of internal problems if we're not presented with at least a few external challenges to handle.
But enough peace ... enough to let us build, and grow, and let us live our lives with those we love without the fear of obliteration shading everything to gray ... enough to allow a grouchy old military doctor to do something with the rest of his life besides patching up the wounds inflicted by attempted genocide ...
... maybe we can make that factual instead of fictional. Someday.
Muse: Kia Holtz
Fandom: OC from Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 269
As two young friends of mine recently pointed out, our fleet is caught between the historical and the legendary. We've lost our home, the Twelve Colonies that were in fact, now reduced to distant ruins and memories. We seek the Thirteenth Colony, the Earth that might be, but we're not one hundred percent certain. Neither one is fictional in the strictest sense of the word, though they surely might as well be to young people who have never experienced the former and aren't sure they believe in the latter.
I have experienced, and I do believe. What then would be my ideal fictional world?
It would be so very easy to choose some glittering, fantastical utopia from books or vids, a place without want or war or hatred. Given our current difficulties, though, I'd prefer to opt for something a little more ... well, achievable. Really, I could be happy living almost anywhere, as long as that anywhere had one quality.
Peace.
Not perfect, absolute peace, mind you. Not only does that take us right back to the unachievable, but we humans seem to create more than our share of internal problems if we're not presented with at least a few external challenges to handle.
But enough peace ... enough to let us build, and grow, and let us live our lives with those we love without the fear of obliteration shading everything to gray ... enough to allow a grouchy old military doctor to do something with the rest of his life besides patching up the wounds inflicted by attempted genocide ...
... maybe we can make that factual instead of fictional. Someday.
Muse: Kia Holtz
Fandom: OC from Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 269