Here Be Monsters

I read a book a couple years back that changes my life. I don't think it mattered so much what the book was as what I was going through when I read it. I was looking for something, or not looking, but expecting, and I picked up one of many good books I could have picked up and there it was; exactly what I didn't know I had been expecting.

I think that's how it is with everything, with books, religion, friends, it is less about them and always about us. I think as people we are always looking for something whether or not we know it and because of that we find it in something else and that something else takes responsibility for what we were looking for, it represents finding and keeping what we need.

I think because there are so many books to pick up or people to meet we are always finding what we are looking for and not knowing it and this makes us happy.

We find what we need, externalise it and make it a part of us. Then we go on looking, but in a subtle way that can never be disappointing. I like that.

The book was Here be Monsters by Collin Cheney.