War & Peace Update Part III: The Half-Way Point

So, I am officially through half of War & Peace and have admittedly become rather enamored with the book in all honesty. All I can say is that in college I wanted to write a book that encapsulated many of the inherent contradictions of our society and humanity in general, but obviously I did not have the patience to read a book that captures those contradictions beautifully. Good people do bad things with profound consequences, bad people do bad things with no consequences, good people do good things with no consequences and bad people even once in a while do good things to great acclaim. Sometimes life seems to be so beautiful you can hardly contain your excitement for even the simplest of pleasures and sometimes life feels so frivolous you wonder how you can get from one day to the next. The book is a journey through the human condition, which makes it painful at times. It often will depict how one inane action in one single moment which one might think inconsequential can drastically alter the course of your life. Though it is hard to accept that someone you have come to care for could make a disastrous decision against all better judgment, fall in love with the wrong person, or cause harm to anyone or anything, it happens from time to time in the course of a life. People tend to recover and life continues onward for most if not all parties involved. Anyway, I cannot wait to see how it all turns out in the end, though that is still another 700 pages away. Ha.