Soundtrack of our Lives
Life is a stage and we are all actors. Some take it a step beyond, we write the script for the movie of our lives, starring, yours truly.
While our destiny may move towards wholeness, becoming fully one, we remain only one. We make sense of our world through a fluid narrative that reminds us our forgotten lines when we have botched the dialog or lost the story. Our personal script moves the action around our hero, our main character, our self.
The cast of antagonists are identified by their abstract otherness or culpability. Our misfortunes and phobias are relegated to the Man, the Company, or worst of all, the Family. The perceived insult is double sided - it’s nothing personal, or worse, it very well is. Curiously, while we assign our misery to others, we seldom acknowledge the vital role they play in moving the plot along ever closer to our intended destiny. For example, it is in leaving the less than girlfriend that we found our wonderful wife. Our lives are filled with nameless actors who present us with most splendid opportunities but fail to be listed when the credits roll. While we have little choice but to play the main character of our own movie we can understand and empathize with the maddening throng of extras that seem to be acting off-script. They, too, are movie stars of their own films. All subplots intertwine into a larger story in the Big Cinema.
Many complex elements of the world operate in concert with each other because they are of the same nature and seek the same ends – growth. We may be forgiven for viewing our world as cinematic, artificially animated from a human point of view, because we sense that it is, indeed, alive and we relate to it through the only story we possess…our own.
The art of growth is in seeing our place as integrative beings in this world looking for our way and opportunity to flourish, not to escape our human condition. While we are not tulips in the field bending to every movement of the sun, we, too, are growing with the aid of the generative power of creativity to develop our full potential.
Nothing grows on its own. All things require a nurturing environment to co-create its optimal state, or in our case, our best self. We, too, are part of the ecosystem of life.
Psychology Today
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