Life is a poorly written story
If you look it at through the lens of story structure
Is your whole life rising action up until the climax where
you do something neat right before you die?
Do you climax early (heyoooooo) and then spend the rest of
your life coasting towards your denoument?
Does your life have a single inciting incident? Something
that kicks off the entire adventure? Just one thing that you can point to and
say “that’s it, that’s where my story really began”?
That sounds dreadfully boring, to have one long-ass story
that takes an entire lifetime to tell
And to only have a single story in you, even if it’s a
really good one
So maybe it’s a bunch of short stories?
Here’s where this part started (and it’s muddled, because
there aren’t really abrupt ends, and everything just sort of slides into each
other), here’s what happened in this story, here’s how this story ends, here’s
the resolution and what’s changed
Or maybe your life isn’t any stories, maybe your life’s just
a life! And it’s yours! It’s yours, you fool! It’s the only thing that really
will ever belong to you! So stop trying to shape your life to form a narrative,
or you’ll just end up with a bunch of poorly written stories, even if your life
is really good.
Oh look, I did a period, there, as if to make a point, even though,
between you and me, it was really just an accidental period.
That one right there was on purpose, though
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