This morning's 'With Great Pleasure' featured a reading from Roz Savage's book, 'Stop Drifting; Start Rowing'.
Roz concludes from her long trip across the Atlantic that there is no point to life, but she felt there was value in searching for meaning. The panel all sagely agreed. Joanna said that's like doing one of those maths questions that can't actually be resolved, but you can get marks for showing your working out.
I recall the account of Joe Simpson's remarkable survival in the story 'Touching the Void'.
Simpson says that after falling 46 meters into an ice crevasse, he called out to God to say if you are real, come to me, and help me. Absolutely nothing happened. Simpson then managed to crawl with broken legs into a deep dark crevasse that did lead out of the glacier and then a mile down to a camp where his life was saved. Mountaineers report "Simpson's survival is regarded by mountaineers as amongst the most remarkable instances of survival against the odds"
How about the working out being important, and also the result? Far more satisfying.
No comments:
Post a Comment