YOUR LIFE

 YOUR LIFE IS A STORY.  YOU ARE THE CO-AUTHOR, AND THE MAIN CHARACTER

Life amuses and entertains itself and enjoys creating new stories that reveal its potential as an author.

What’s the take a way?  Enjoy your story, but remember, you’re merely a character playing a part.  If you get attached to the story, you’ll suffer the emotional consequences when the story doesn’t go your way, like when your time as a character is over, or when one of the characters you love dies before its worn out.  On the other hand, if you choose to experience all the emotions available in the story, go for it, get lost in the story, get attached, entangled and identified with the actors,  your wife, kids, friends, career, new house and car.

I was enjoying a story and the author killed off my favorite character, so I threw the book across the room, then went and picked it up and tossed it in the fire.

Characters are what makes a story exciting.  The reader doesn’t know what a character may do, in fact, the best part is when a character goes out of character and does something unexpected, when it uses its power, its potential (that the reader didn’t anticipate and even the character didn’t know it possessed).

Waking up before your story is over (though, if you wake up, that becomes part of the story) and waking up kind of takes you emotionally out of the story, but, you’ll still have to pee until you, a character, gets its own headstone.  And, waking up while yet in the story, makes you laugh, which really pisses off the characters yet asleep.  So don’t do it in front of them.

The number of religious, social, cultural and environmental conditions a character can be written into, and the various perspectives characters can have, plus the endless number of other characters they could interact with, makes for an infinite number of potential stories.  So, once a character has been developed, it can get killed in one story, and appear in another story with its attributes, qualities, different body and a nose ring.

Staying constantly aware you are an actor in a story doesn’t ruin the story for you, but it can take away the excitement that a young child feels discovering a butterfly.