Quests aren’t all people crack them up to be.
Think about it for a minute. Would you want to leave home at the drop of a hat to travel halfway across the world, facing danger and possibly death? Or spend weeks without a proper bed and be at the mercy of the elements?
To paraphrase a saying I’ve heard, “People love to read about things they hate in real life.”
Quests are a great example of that. We enjoy reading about them, but we don’t stop to think what it means to be on one. No amenities. None of life’s comforts. Heck, not even a toothbrush.
Just you and the road ahead.
Oh, and the baddies pursuing you every step of the way.
Put that way, it doesn’t sound so glamorous.
Keeping that in mind, here are ten perfectly sensible reasons to avoid going on a quest.
Not the grandiose lifestyle of errantry the books paint it as, huh?
Do you think you would survive on a quest? What would be the hardest thing to go without? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
15 thoughts on “Throwback Week: 10 Reasons to Avoid Going On a Quest”
Hmmm, good points, all. 🙂 Other reasons to avoid going on a quest include, but are not limited to: you may encounter very terrifying occurrences, have to sleep out in the elements (without a fire, because you can’t get one to light in the pouring rain, you’ll probably decide to do the stupid thing and try to get a room at an inn where it’s dry – but the innkeeper is in the pocket of the bad guy and you’ll have to run for your life and end up sleeping in the pouring rain anyway.
I totally wouldn’t survive.
I think the hardest thing for me to go without would probably be… feeling clean. Though I’ve been on some camping expeditions and I know you get used to it after a while. I think the hardest part of a fantasy quest would be not knowing when or if it would ever be over. Camping trips are fun because I know at the end of them I get to go home, and the end of them is usually a week or less.
Those are great points, Jenelle. Especially the one about sleeping in the rain. I imagine that would be miserable, never having had the desire to or misfortune of experiencing said discomfort myself.
That endless aspect, having no idea where the road ends, or if you’ll even reach the end, would be hard to deal with for sure.
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