Sometimes, B5 really does say it all.

[lagilman]

Susan Ivanova: "I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference."

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Sinclair: "Ready?"
Delenn: "Why is it that your people always ask someone if they are ready right before you are about to do something massively unwise?"
Sinclair: "Tradition."

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Dr. Stephen Franklin: "I realize that I always defined myself in terms of what I wasn't. I wasn't a good soldier like my father. I wasn't the job. I wasn't a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn't, never what I was. And when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments are all we've got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything that's happened, I realized I didn't want to let go. I was willing to do it all over again, and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can't go back, but I can appreciate what I have right now. And I can define myself by what I am instead of what I'm not."
Captain John Sheridan: "And what are you?"
Dr. Stephen Franklin: "Alive. Everything else is negotiable."




And the week continues.

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these reminders. I never thought that JMS was a particuarly good dialogue writer, but every now and then he nailed some basic truths. These are some of his better moments and, somehow, particularly cogent for me right now, too.

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

Stephen Franklin's statement has always appealed to me. It's so sad that Richard Biggs, who played him, died so young.

[lagilman]

Every day is a gift.

And, likewise, every day is a new chance to do something Conventionally Unwise, just for the sheeer wheeeee! of it.


That's my philosophy, anyway. Plan for the future but live in the day.

[mcleana.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Sometimes I think we all take ourselves and life far too seriously.

There's a line in 'Stolen Car' by Beth Orton that I've always liked for more or less that reason: "And why should I have known better by now / when I'm old enough not to."

[shadowfay.livejournal.com]

I love B5. Thanks for sharing.