Avoiding Fortune

In class today we talked about how Boethius pledged himself to Fortune and it made me wonder if there was any way to avoid the ways of Fortune.  If something good happened in Boethius' life was he simply supposed to avoid it and not appreciate it so Fortune could not take a hold of him? However, if he didn't appreciate anything good in his life what kind of a life would that be?  Or is Boethius simply not supposed to get so extremely caught up in the good to where he cannot live his life unless something good is happening?

In a way this is what happened to Boethius.  He became so used to the good and happiness that he was not able to see the fragility of it. In Boethius' defense he never experienced the teaching of misfortune. Lady Philosophy says in Book Two Prose 8 that, 

I am convinced that adverse fortune is more beneficial to men than prosperous fortune. When Fortune seems kind, and seems to promise happiness, she lies. On the other hand, when she shows herself unstable and changeable, she is truthful. Good fortune deceives, adverse fortune teaches. Good fortune enslaves the minds of good men with the beauty of the specious goods which they enjoy; but bad fortune frees them by making them see the fragile nature of happiness.

 All of Boethius' life he had been lied to and so when the truth finally revealed itself through misfortune he sank into the state Lady Philosophy found him in in Book One.

If Boethius had not completely relied on happiness and good fortune could he have avoided Fortune? In my opinion avoiding Fortune is similar to avoiding the Fates: inevitable. If this is the life Boethius was fated to lead how could he have avoided Fortune especially with his lack of insight into misfortune? In a similar way it is impossible to control the wheels of fortune, but if we are capable of appreciating every situation we are handed it is possible not to be fooled by fortune.

(Commented on emilylaforce's Emotion vs. Reason)