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Where Are You Going?
What’s Your Story?
We are the keepers of our tales. We live them and easily tell them embellishing, minimizing, it doesn’t matter. Friend, neighbour, stranger or family everyone needs someone to listen, someone to hear them. Even in our silence, we are living a story.
We rejoice or complain about the world our stories have created around us. Either way, they are ours and guide us on our journey through this life.
Sometimes we chronicle fictional events to justify harmful actions of our own. Blaming and demonizing another human requires an opera, a plot so believable we sigh and cry and coerce others to weep with us.
The more guilty we are, the worse our report becomes. It twists and flips the truth weaponizing words in defence so thick the lies are no longer visible.
We dream of alternative realities to survive the actions of others when the truth is too painful to bear. We become shadows of ourselves watching from the balcony as the fictional us overpowers our stage.
We are the writer, the editor and the publisher of our lives. The most important stories of all are the ones we tell ourselves.
It’s easy to get lost in the tales we tell. Our focus is generally on work, family, when, how, and where we will get through our day. We are living…
