Thank you Child of the 7th Age for bringing your thread back from the dead. (no more rhyming for me)
Well, my decision would be completely without regret. I know which world I belong in. I know that there are plenty of opportunities waiting for me around the corner and so much to see and do and know and hear and smell and taste and feel. Which is why I would choose right. I would think back on my decision and I would feel warm inside and smile.
I could not leave this life, no matter how great Middle-earth is. There are plenty of things I would like to do there, like visit Tom Bombadil and question his enigmatic brains out. Or to try the beer there or go on numerous adventures into mountains or caves. Not to mention relaxing in the Shire and other peaceful places and visiting Ithilien. But is it worth it to permenantly leave your life? There are to many people I know in my life that I could not leave. There is so much to do in this world. I could not bring everyone I wanted to ME and even if I were allowed to, who's to say they would come? And I think it's just plain selfish to make people choose to leave the life they love permenantly just to make you happy.
I could not do without the music we have in this world. I could not do without the places I love to go. And there are so many more people yet to meet. I don't think of not choosing to go to ME as a missed chance and something to regret, I think of not living the rest of my life in this world as something to regret and a missed chance.
I don't know whether I believe we are put in this world for a purpose. I don't like the idea of destiny or purposes either, so I like to think that we are born to live our lives freely and it is
me who shapes, plans, and lives my life and that it is becuase of
my decisions and choices that my life ends the way it will. So, I don't believe that if the door to ME is there it is there for a reason and that we have to (or should) choose it. Why not just think of this choice as a challenge or a test by some greater form of life and that we are asked to continue to live in our world for a purpose? And then would you choose to stay?
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On Earth you'll end up in the middle of nowhere in TX with no adventure at all. In middle-earth everything and every place you go you meet elves, dwarves etc.
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What's the difference? You are "in the middle of nowhere in TX with no adventure at all" because you choose to be. You would leave that life all behind, permenantly, in an instant, where you can go seek adventure in ME, but in reality, you refuse to leave it all behind, permenantly, and go seek adventure in this world? That's madness! If people are so needy of adventure why don't they go and seek it? Because they don't want to leave behind their life with their family and friends? Then why would the choose to go to ME? They would leave their life then. At least in this world, you can always come back.
And who's to say you would meet dwarves and elves at every place you go? You might end up in Bree stuck farming for a living saying "I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere in Eriador with no adventure at all."
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for here isn't much loved in this life.I have suffered much and if I had such chance,I would never go back.
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Amanfalath, can you honestly say you would not regret permenantly leaving this life? If you have suffered, time can always heal suffering. And who's to say you won't suffer in ME? Everyone must suffer in life. Suffering is a part of life but it is not the only thing. There is much you can look forward to in this life.
Your decision is up to you, but I just can't see why some of you would choose left. I was born in this world and that's where I belong. I love it and I cannot leave it.
[ June 30, 2003: Message edited by: MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie ]