“In the end, we’ll all become Stories.”
— Margaret Atwood
We as humans tend to write pages and retrospect those pages as we grow up. Infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood – these four stages consist of our growth and life span. What we do or go through in these four steps concludes the story of our lives. What we need to focus on is – is it worth knowing? Is it readable?
When we are infants, our guardians hold a memory of us growing up. During the adolescent stage, we get familiar with people outside of our family, they hold a different story and perspective of us. There is a Japanese concept of ‘three faces’ – the first, which you portray to strangers and the world, the second one that you are in front of your close acquaintances, and the third that you conceal from all.
We spend our lives questioning our true identity and searching for people with who we can create a connection and find a corresponding soul which will accompany us through our lives. We are weak and scared of being alone, but we know that we will always be alone and there is only one person that will always be beside us and that is ‘you.
But how to appease ourselves from this knowledge of solitude, in this machine-like world where money is the priority, luxury is the need and trust issues stand before friendship as a barrier? – To grow as an ideal human being.
We all have our theory or example of an ideal human being – intellectual, smart, understanding, responsible, sensible, and more. But how do we become different from everyone else? We are all different from each other and we are all similar simultaneously.
Waking up at 5 a.m., studying, having a hobby, getting a job, and sleeping at 10 p.m. will not make you any different from everyone else. But to grow every day as a better human being will make you different from everyone else.
There is a Latin term ‘memento more, which simply means that remember you have to die one day. After death, all we leave is memories of ourselves among people with whom we were familiar, and what makes it memorable is the impression we left on them. It could be our gentle nature, polite behavior, intellectual words, caring nature or it could be something that we find weird about ourselves.
It is the impression that will keep us in their memories because all of them have their version of our lives as short stories, just like we miss and remember our lost ones.
So, instead of questioning the purpose of your life, do what you have now, try your best to fulfill your dreams, wants, and needs, without stressing about the future cause you are not the only one who is scared of the potential circumstances, getting hitched with someone after a certain age, getting a 9 to 5 job and get lost in the crowd of billions. Just focus on your dreams and the growth of yourself as an individual. – ‘In the end, we’ll become stories. Try to make it a good one.’
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