Novelism allows for a dynamic relationship with one’s self and everything else. Life would be boring if we got exactly what we wanted. And Eve’s transgression was necessary for this great adventure we’re all on.

That still doesn’t stop feelings of doubt and despair.

The idea in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that we live as we dream, alone, provides me with some solace. There might be little or no access to reality, and what is certain is death and disappointment, punctuated with some moments of forgetting. But we get to make choices.

Our lives don’t have to be boring.