[NON BLOG] Two Realizations

[rfmcdonald]

• While chatting with serod and runyon, I surprised myself by saying that I was happy with my situation in life. Which is true: I don't need or want material success or prosperity, really, so long as either would interfere with my perceived lifestyle of enjoying Toronto. I want to change since I clearly can't achieve anything of lasting global import in my current socioeconomic situation. Finding motivation, though, is an issue. This is changing, I suspect.


• While considering whether or not to pick up Cyril Collard's Savage Nights at Definitely Not the Rosedale Library, I again surprised myself by thinking that this protagonist too wouldn't be much of a positive role model for he dies. I tend to look to literature--social-scientific, literary--for role models, for ideas on how to behave myself. Much of the GLBT literature I've read--Guibert notably, also Holleran and White, also others--features the slow and agonizing and terribly sad and premature deaths of people my age via HIV/AIDS. I'm inclined to morbidity as is. Recommendations for more uplifting GLBT reading material?