Sometimes, just sometimes, do you ever want to go back and rewrite history?
Given our high tech gadgets -- smart phones, tablets, laptops or hybrids that are able to conduct business or pleasure 24/7 anywhere (okay, most anywhere) around the globe -- do you realize how history as we know it would be drastically different if these inventions were introduced earlier into the space / time continuum?
For many who are politically and historically minded, there are a million different ways a text notification, simple phone call, or Skype meeting would have prevented, ended, or started revolutions, wars, friendships, alliances which would vastly effect our present. But this is actually way deeper than I want to touch on today.
It's the little things that really affect me in my day to day life. Here's a case in point: what if I could curl up with one of Jane Austen's novels that she wrote later in life? Perhaps she did in fact find true love, was fortunate to have an Anne Elliot type of fairy tale ending and get to finish out her days being the mistress of a beautiful country house complete with servants.
Alas, Jane Austen contracted an illness which she possibly could have avoided. Her epistolary novels, which are a source of much amusement and comfort to me, were only 6 in number:
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Each of these six are such classics that a myriad number of remakes have been make, but also, the themes weaving through these books are contained in countless other works including books, the small screen, and the big screen. Old as well as current popular movies still echo with Jane Austen's trademark plots.
Here is my quandry: Could essential oils have saved Jane Austen? Or, at the very least, could the healing properties of these oils have given her a few more years? Would she have finished a couple of her unpublished writings, or could there have been a monumental work even greater than Pride & Prejudice that Masterpiece Classics would be featuring year after year, remake after remake?
Perhaps.
It makes me wonder.
For a bird's eye view into the life of this 41 year old writer who has influenced the life of so many, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_austen
Given our high tech gadgets -- smart phones, tablets, laptops or hybrids that are able to conduct business or pleasure 24/7 anywhere (okay, most anywhere) around the globe -- do you realize how history as we know it would be drastically different if these inventions were introduced earlier into the space / time continuum?
For many who are politically and historically minded, there are a million different ways a text notification, simple phone call, or Skype meeting would have prevented, ended, or started revolutions, wars, friendships, alliances which would vastly effect our present. But this is actually way deeper than I want to touch on today.
It's the little things that really affect me in my day to day life. Here's a case in point: what if I could curl up with one of Jane Austen's novels that she wrote later in life? Perhaps she did in fact find true love, was fortunate to have an Anne Elliot type of fairy tale ending and get to finish out her days being the mistress of a beautiful country house complete with servants.
Alas, Jane Austen contracted an illness which she possibly could have avoided. Her epistolary novels, which are a source of much amusement and comfort to me, were only 6 in number:
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Each of these six are such classics that a myriad number of remakes have been make, but also, the themes weaving through these books are contained in countless other works including books, the small screen, and the big screen. Old as well as current popular movies still echo with Jane Austen's trademark plots.
Here is my quandry: Could essential oils have saved Jane Austen? Or, at the very least, could the healing properties of these oils have given her a few more years? Would she have finished a couple of her unpublished writings, or could there have been a monumental work even greater than Pride & Prejudice that Masterpiece Classics would be featuring year after year, remake after remake?
Perhaps.
It makes me wonder.
For a bird's eye view into the life of this 41 year old writer who has influenced the life of so many, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_austen