Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Cervantes work, Don Quixote.
“Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of them whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with those spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes . . . What giants,” said Sancho Panza.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Note: When we set out on our adventure we will have monstrous giants (metaphorically) to slay. Many of those whom we considered friends will not see what we are seeing on our adventure. Their minds are closed as stay behind their emotional barricades. The giants we slay may be our fear, pride, greed, or an unjust cause. If we are to be successful in our adventure, we have to slay our dragons.