Writing the story of your life one day at a time
Writing the story of your life one day at a time
An old story can’t be the final chapter of our current one.
The future spreads out before us like the steamy dawn of a summer morning.
The sky displaying the kind of intense blue that comes only in summer.
It is fun, simple, to head down the road in front of us on a beautiful day like this.
The fringe of someone else’s story beckons to us from the roadside.
Curiosity piqued, we get sidetracked.
We risk letting their hurdles, their unique challenges slow our ride.
Your life story is a gift, and it should be treated as such- Emily V. Gordon
Now cautious, wondering if we too might face unexpected dramas.
Things that might stop our journey altogether.
Instead, let’s look closely at their story, but remember that it’s not ours.
We have the opportunity to live our own story, right now!
Enjoying, celebrating, the small and grand successes of our peers.
Growing in empathy for their struggles.
Our job isn’t to assess someone else’s journey.
Friends, too often we stop and compare our journey to those around us. Those further along, who seem to have “it” already.
Forgetting that their highway seems freshly paved now, but that they traveled on roads growing weeds that threatened to choke out their dreams.
Where the pages of their story are charred with an experience we know nothing about.
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”— Theodore Roosevelt
How we waste time on comparison.
I am no stranger to it myself.
I am exploring and taking the parts that seem useful and leaving the rest behind.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’- Erma Bombeck
I am participating in my own journey, refusing the ignorance of seeing the bigger picture of my peers.
Hopefully, you’ll see me in the same light.
A fellow traveler, not there yet, and also not where I began.
We do not remember days, we remember moments- Cesare Pavese
Slow living resources you might enjoy:
- How to Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives SO good
- Destination Simple: Everyday Rituals for a Slower Life
- Seeking Slow: Reclaim Moments of Calm in Your Day
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