Drawing Up Your Story Line
People and Points of Perspective, Part 3
You have a story. It is not written like a book, where the point that ignites the tale is an abridged coverage of what happens. It has a set start and a conclusive end, this bookends the story of what happens. Your birth to your death, your story is complete. It is also completely up to you on how your story goes.
As an adult, you make decisions on your life and what happens and how you react to them. There are somethings in your life that you lack control over, that is quite alright because you have control over how you react to them. For example, you can become angry and bitter causing you to want to seek revenge, but then that turns you from a character we would hope for to one that we would root against. If you take it with a grain of salt and seek a better opportunity, then you can in turn become the once-discredited hero who rises to the occasion.
They say that life is X% what happens to you and XX% how you react to it. That's how your story and its plot twists come into play.
I challenge you to think your plot line through. How will each decision and reaction shape the opinion other characters hold of you? How can it help or hurt you in achieving your desired end?
I want to be considered the hero, that character who saves the day, embodies values and virtues, and who also is the living ideals of manhood. Cheesy or not, you have to deal with it because that's my ambition and how I work on my story. I want to be more intelligent than the simple brute, better physically-abled than the feeble nerd, deeper than the modern socialite, and I also desire to be enlightened with a touch of the blind eye.
What story do you see yourself writing? What character do you play? How are you portrayed in your own story and by others?
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