CosmicSandBox’s Weblog

      Most everyone is living their lives primarily from memorization. We have memorized our family’s history and believe we are one of the characters in that novel. We believe we are what we know from school and work over time. We’ve memorized the various scripts for the character(s) we chose to play, as well as the parts that might have been forced upon us when we were too young to know what was happening.

        Conformity is the flavor of the day – everyday. The non-conformist who is marching to a different drummer isn’t rewarded unless he excels to greatness. The majority never even try to venture out of their comfort zone no matter how miserable their situation. A rut is a grave with both ends removed.

            When we believe we are our story, we are living life through the rear view mirror. Our future will be just like our past. Scary thought for most. Of course, we aren’t our thoughts either. We are the thinker having the thoughts as well as writing our stories. But what if there is no story?

            Imagine suddenly finding yourself with amnesia with no memory of the past. You don’t know your name or where you live. However, you still exist. You are breathing. You fog a mirror and you can see yourself in it. Now, who are you? You are your awareness that you exist. Everything else is just a story piled on top of this basic truth. Do you see that you are choosing which plot and part you want to play in your melodrama, tragedy, comedy, mystery or adventure? Only you control your choices or think your thoughts. No one else can make you think or feel anything.

            The reason it is important to get a grasp of the fact that we are not our stories is that we must wake up so we can take control of our own lives and creatively choose the best direction in the months and years ahead. The danger of believing that we are our stories means that the past equals the future and we are destined to repeat it.

            Every day we write the script for the coming attraction. If we are living from memorization we are just like the computers we have created. They will only give us what we have programmed into them. You know the drill, “garbage in, garbage out or same stuff, different day”. 

            The real YOU is your imaginative, intuitive soulful Self that creates form out of the formless. Everything was once a thought in someone’s imagination that took form. However, we can’t create a new life path using our old stories. We can be new every morning if we so choose. But we must let go of our fear. We fear the unknown, and without our story we feel lost and out of control.

            Well, the times we are experiencing now have thrust all of us into the unknown whether we like or not. It really is a whole new world, in which our old stories do not work. We can’t afford to remain paralyzed by fear. We can take our power back and co-create a new story of freedom born of cooperation and compassion. The old story (his-story) has been based on rugged individualism and competition. The theme was “As long as I have mine, I don’t care if you get yours.”  With the collapse of the global economy and no one knowing how to solve it, we have a golden opportunity to create a new human story.

            We each have the power to write a new story in our own lives. We only need the courage to venture inside and discover it. Ask yourself who were you and what were your passions when you were a little kid before you disappeared under your parents’ story of you? That creative, intuitive unblemished child can be resurrected, because he/she is still alive and well in your heart. Listen to the real story and give it a voice.

None of us can afford to act out anyone else’s story anymore. There is a sifting going on and only the “real” will remain to change the story.