Are you happy?
Are you moving, consistently towards a goal?
Does your life have meaning?
If you were to die in six months, would you be proud of the life that you've lived?
Did you answer "No." more times than was comfortable?
Faber est suae quisque fortunae / Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. (Appius Claudius Caecus)
It is easy to forget, and I will even propose that some of have never known this simple truth.
We, individually, are authors. Everyday we write. Sometimes this writing is simple and clean, leaving both author and reader with a sublime feeling of satisfaction and achievement. More oft, the writing is at odds with itself, the surroundings, and even author and reader. Both are left confused, frustrated and wanting something else, anything else. This story, this Book.. is your life. Every moment you are creating another line in the book that will become the story of your life.
Take another moment right now, and look at what you wrote yesterday.
Read it aloud, how does it sound?
Do you feel happy with it?
Are you feeling proud?
Do you feel that, through the course of the day, you accomplished something?
Or was today simply the same characters doing the same thing they did before, perhaps despising it just a bit more? That gnawing feeling of apathy squashing the hope that was once there.
You are the author of your Book.
You.
Not your mother.
Not your father.
Not your church.
Not your boss.
Not your spouse.
Not your friends.
Not society.
You and you alone, write every word. Even when you hand the pen to someone else, it was you that made that choice.
Not happy with that? Not happy with how your life is? Look to yourself first, as every word was written by that pen in your hand.
Now, since you've written this all in pen, no eraser is going to change the plot as it has developed so far. I have investigated, quite thoroughly, the option of time travel. Not finding any reliable sources that can provide time-travel guarantees, we need to cross 'fixing the past' off our options list. Compounding that is the whole "Grandfather Paradox" that has me a bit concerned. We very well can't undo or redo the things that have happened. The future is out as well. Since it is not yet here, it cannot be changed. That leaves you with the now. The only thing you really have is right now. This bright moment. Right now, decide if you liked where your Story is going or you want to change the rest of your Book. You hold the pen in your hand right now, wet ink slowly pooling at the tip. The question of the day, the question of your life, is "What are you going to write now?"
Things to ponder:
No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. -Turkish proverb
I have smelled death and stared it in the face as the last glimmer of consciousness faded from the eyes of a man whose head I held in my hands. My greatest fear in life is not death, but waking up some morning ordinary and predictable. -Jeffrey M. Deuel
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Unknown
It's not how much you have, but what you do with the time you have....Gandalf in Lord of the Rings
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
Rage, rage against the dying of the light! Do not go gentle into that goodnight! -Dylan Thomas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -Ferris Bueller
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