‘It seemed to him’

One night as they lay lurking in the fireless dark, Túrin looked on his life, and it seemed to him that it might well be bettered.

The Children of Húrin
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien

I just adore the dry understatement of this epiphany. Although I would deny charges of lurking, I too have looked on my life and decided it might well be bettered. Whether I then do anything that actually betters it is another matter—much like Tolkien’s doomed hero.

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