may all your stories have a good ending
We are in a festive season rich with storytelling steeped in miracles. Stories serve many purposes – they teach us lessons, preserve culture and help us make sense of the world. From the Christian nativity story to the Jewish Hanukkah story to Clement C. Moore’s A Visit from St. Nicholas, wonderful, inexplicable things happen in our re-telling of seasonal stories year after year.
And, sure, as you age, your perspective changes from childlike belief in magical things to a deeper understanding of the meanings embedded in the stories we tell ourselves. Making sense of the world changes as you change which is another way to say that the way you make sense of the world always changes.
Aside from your evolving interpretation of traditional holiday stories, you are always writing the story of your life, making sense along the way of your choices – in love, in friendships, in the work you choose, the places you live, the communities you join. You may tell stories of why a job or relationship ended, and then, with the passage of time, revise it a little. We all rewrite our story all the time; with perspective, one hopes, comes understanding. So you adapt. It’s important to remember that. You can always adapt. The story is not outside of you. It’s in you. Pay attention to your story. Keep rewriting it, making meaning, learning as you go.
And may all your stories have a good ending.
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12/23/24
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