Thursday Writing Quote ~ Foster

"The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason. In fact, more often than not, the quester fails at the stated task. So why do they go out and why do we care? They go because of the stated task, mistakenly, believing that it is their real mission. We know, however, that their quest is educational. They don't know enough about the subject that really matters: themselves. The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. That's why questers are so often young, inexperienced, immature, sheltered. Forty-five-year-old men either have self-knowledge or they're never going to get it, while your average sixteen-to-eighteen-year old kid is likely to have a long way to go in the self-knowledge department." ~ Thomas C. Foster