During a long car ride, one of our children complained that
their book had no plot. I wasn’t familiar with the story, so I asked how many
pages had been read. The answer: twelve. Once our stories stop flowing the way
we want, we like to jump in and control the process. We prefer skipping boring
parts, tossing aside bad sections, and boosting the excitement. When we overmanage
our stories, they turn out like this:
The video featured a perfect picture book with good doses
of drama and purpose sped up and ruined.
We make that mistake with the stories we read and the story we live. We’d
like to skip the mad-sad-bad parts of life and keep the rest, but the mixture formed, and continues to form, us. What sentence summarizes the plot of your life story?
