James Barrie wrote “The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another”
There are those whose life plan unfolds like the chapters of a well written book, plans naturally fall into place for them. They pass exams easily; meet the right people and their career path seems smooth and unhindered. It’s as if the blueprint of their life is printed on gold tinted pages. Everything seems pre-ordained and safe, no mountains to climb or rivers to ford, they live with the certainty that their story has a beginning, a middle and an end, all of which will happen just as they planned it. Like all good books their life seems interesting, and when read from the outside appears enviable but unachievable to the rest of us.
If you want your own success story you must write it and treat every day as a new page just waiting to be continued. Don’t look back and wonder what you could have had, what you should have had, you can’t go back and move things around, you can’t write a better tomorrow by fixating on how you got so many yesterdays completely wrong.
Larson wrote “Forget regret, or life is yours to miss” if you keep looking back at all the closed doors in your life you risk missing the one that is opening in front of you. Every successful story ever written started out as an idea, sometimes the author knew the beginning but had no understanding of how it would finish, and as the story evolves he adapts purpose, time and place to fit the emerging theme. Marden wrote “Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them”.
Whatever dreams you have for your life, write them down and start your story there.Even if you don’t realise them all, you will always have a reminder of where it all began, and though the plot may be full of twists and turns, you’d be surprised if you just stick with it, how many stories have a happy ending.
“If you want a happy ending that depends of course on where you stop your story” Orson Welles
Title quote by Maya Angelou