Your life story

I've recently realized why I like movies so much.

It’s the same reason why I like books. I like the stories, to see how a character’s personality develops, the choices he makes, the struggles he goes through, his indecisions, his vulnerability, how his life’s story progresses in the two hours that I have my eyes on the screen and ultimately, I like to see his happy ending.

When I was a child I always wished that my life were like the movies I watched or the books I read. Things seemed so much simpler, so much nicer and definitely seemed to happen a lot faster than in real life. The truth is, I liked watching movies back then because it helped me escape my own life, my own reality.

Of course my reason for watching and liking movies have changed, but the more I practice this hobby, the more I see that our life is just like a story in a movie or a book.

Your life is a story that started years ago. For many people it has been a sad one from the beginning. Since we don’t choose the family we are born into, the parents we have and the financial conditions we grow up in, for some time everything in our lives depend entirely on someone else’s decisions.

But the day comes, as it does for everybody, when we are capable of making our own decisions, when we don’t need other people to guide us between right and wrong, between good and bad, when regardless of our young age, we start thinking for ourselves.

Up to that day, someone else was “writing” your story and whatever bad thing happened, there was nothing you could do about it. But that day comes and now you are the one filling the pages of your life.

Unfortunately some people choose to continuing blaming others for all the bad things that happened to them or the things they didn’t have. Some just live life as it comes, they don’t believe it can be any different from what has been so far and others still, think that now is not the time to make any serious decisions, that they are too young and therefore should enjoy whatever good thing they can get. Very few choose to take their story in a different direction than most people.

Eighteen years ago I decided to change the course my story was going. I gave my life to God and since then, each day, He’s been helping me write a better story than what it had been up to that moment. There have been heartaches, disappointments and struggles just like in any good plot, but there has also been victories, unexpected blessings, happiness, a lot of laughter and even a prince :) And with His help I’m going towards my happy ending.

Everyone wants a happy ending, but not even in movies the story goes from “once upon a time” to “they lived happily ever after”. There is a lot to be filled in between and you are doing that in your own life.

Each day you are writing a page of your story, you are making decisions that will take that story somewhere. And where is it going?

Today and everyday are just blank pages in the book of your life and YOU are the one holding the pen.

What will you write next?