Unity

I like finding common themes in my life. It feels more like a narrative that way, that there is a plot and direction instead of an aimless trudge from one day to the next, it makes me feel part of a big picture. Very appealing to my author sensibilities.

Anyway, one I've realise recently is the theme of unity, which is a little special because it's been encroaching on not only my own life but the lives of the characters I play as well, which is both amusing and thought-provoking.

For example:

In real life, I have been following the Rally to Restore Unity led by Rachel Held Evans, an effort to help bring about Christian Unity inspired by the Rally to Restore Sanity that took place a while back. I'm a fan of both efforts, but I found it really interesting and enlightening to encounter people's thoughts on Christian unity, what it means, what it doesn't mean, how it can be accomplished and what might be standing in our way. Take a look, there's a lot of interesting stuff there. And funny signs.

On the topic of religious unity, that's exactly what my character at Maelstrom was involved in - at least two of the faiths began huge ventures to bring their various splinter groups together (with the aim of stopping the end of the world I think it was easier in this case to find common ground). My character certainly threw herself into it and by the end of the weekend had even HUGGED A DRAGON. Which she definitely wouldn't have done before that festival.

And finally, I'm in an Exalted Alchemicals game, in which my character is called Strand of Hidden Unity (Unity for short), and who is having a great deal less success in world peace, but her concept still revolves around that, with the motivation to create a utopia.

This is all making me incredibly cheerful, because it's a theme I resonate quite strongly with anyway, personally. And it is with that cheeriness that I will stop procrastinating and go back to my revision now...