The Neverending Story

You've read the book, you've seen the movie. I am living it, or so it seems. Everyone loves a good story with a happy ending. Sometimes, good stories may even had sad endings, or endings that make you think.

What would you do if you were actually in the story and couldn't get out? Stories are meant to be told AFTER the fact. There is no after, yet, for me. It is still very much now..the present..and I am in the story, still. The story that apparently has not really ended yet. The story that keeps on giving. It is a challenge I face every day..for a reason I have not quite figured out yet.

I am surprised how famous or infamous it is, really. I am surprised it continues to be a story, really. I have let it go, or I have tried to, because after all, it is nothing but a story now, in the past. The past is gone. It really does not even exist except in the minds of those that wish to relive it. I do not.

I have tried to keep positive, to live in the present, and to be a better person, every day. I am creating my own story, minute by minute. I am learning every day that for every action there is a reaction. If you make a choice, be prepared to deal with the reaction. But it is all part of the story that has not ended yet.

Sometimes stories have lessons. Sometimes new characters bring new lessons. Yesterday a new character entered my story with a new lesson. A simple lesson, but poignant: the Chinese believe life is for a very long time..because when this life ends, there are other lives. They believe you can learn much from animals, and their pace through life. The rabbit has avery short life span as they run around like crazy through life. The tortoise, on the other hand...can live hundreds of years. Do you want to be a rabbit or a tortoise?

It is important to live each minute moment of your life. Live now, create your own stories from the present, not the past. I believe your choices and paths have already been determined. I am learning to go with it and be positive. It is unproductive and unhealthy to be negative. I have learned that lesson from my life story, now I am learning to breathe and slow down so that I can be like the tortoise, and not the rabbit.