Write Your Life
Take out a white piece of paper and place it on your kitchen
table. You now have two choices. You can write or draw on it, or
you can leave it there.
If you write or draw, you control the paper's destiny, the words
or images it will express, the character it will display, the
very meaning of its existence.
If you choose to leave it on your kitchen table, it will remain
white. Over time, if left undisturbed, it will slowly turn
yellow, old and weary, with no character and no meaning. But
wait. It will not be left undisturbed. Surely something will
spill on it. If your kitchen table sees the kind of abuse ours
does, it won't take a day before there's a strawberry stain on
it, perhaps a few drops of milk or syrup, or maybe some stray
mashed potatoes.
That paper is your life. We can let fate take its course,
splashing the splendor of life's stray mashed potatoes across
our lives, or we can define our own meaning. It's up to each of
us. What's your choice?
Isn't this a great little exercise to pass along to your
friends?