An investor I once worked with said, ‘You are only as good as your last impression’. While this statement also seems to be a little superficial, there is a grain of truth in it. It is ok not to know exactly what our story line is today. Moment by moment we may feel that we drift, but there is a story in the making. Let it come to us.
All that craving for passion, meaning and purpose. It is the voice in our head that wants to know what is going on, isn’t it? Sure, everyone is destined to live a life of passion, meaning and purpose, but we have to let the story line come to us. We follow our plan but let life do the talking. Tomorrow we have a different plan altogether.
It is quite all-right to tell a ‘story of you’, for if you didn’t, the voice in your head would start complaining, ‘you are a bum’, ‘you reckless’, ‘you don’t do GOD’s work’, and so forth. What a waste! So have a story and let it be a meaningful and purposeful one, but at the same time, don’t be surprised if life takes you in a different direction entirely.
The story teller inside is capricious as we well know. The story other people tell about us is notoriously unreliable. Let life do the talking! Never mind what stuff you hear in your head and what emotions may run through you at this time. Just breathe and dig deep, ‘the story of you’ is being written as we speak. It is a beautiful one.
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