Lost In The Story

Life is a story. Actually, life is series of stories, kind of a mini-series with you in the starring role. You act out the story on various stages with a cast of characters that you’ve come to know well, btw, when you know someone really well it’s karma. The story has a plot that fits into themes that play out over multiple life times. Each story has a measure of love, loss, comedy and tragedy. Shakespeare nailed it when he said that the world’s a stage and we are merely players.

You are more than merely a player. You are the creator of stories, the director, the scrip writer and of course the star. The human story is an amazing experience as long as you remember who you are, where you are and why you created the story in the first place.

Not many humans do, remember that is. To be or not to be. To forget who you are, where you are and why you are is to be lost in the story. Human stories repeat which means that you are in a cycle of repeating cycle stories right now. Take a moment to wonder about this where you are in the cycle of stories?

I’ll help you with the wondering and guess that you're near the end of the stories, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. I’ll go further and say that you might be a little tired of the stories and occasionally wonder about what a post-story era might look like for you.

It’s good to wonder because wondering fires up the sense of imagination. Wondering calls on a level of awareness not generally present in the average story. When a human is lost in the story, the senses of awareness and imagination are dormant, not dead but damn close.

The etymology of words often tells us more than a dictionary. Here’s what the Online Etymology Dictionary says for dormant: late 14c., ‘fixed in place’, from Old French dormant (12c.), present participle of dormir  ‘to sleep’, from Latin dormire ‘to sleep’, from PIE root *drem- ‘to sleep’.

When the senses of awareness and imagination are dormant or asleep, the human in possession of those senses, plus many others, is also asleep with the consequence that the human is sleep walking through another story.

Here’s the existential best seller of a question.

How do you know when you’re at the end of human stories?

Only you can answer that.

Notes From A Journeyer explores some of the questions I’ve posed. Ultimately, there is no right answer only one that fits into your story line. Sorry, I’ve got that wrong. It’s up to you to find answers that take you beyond your story.

A Journeyer goes beyond the human story but they won’t get far without remembering who they are, where they are and why they are in a body on planet Earth at this momentous time of change.

To sum up. Staying lost in the story when you know deep down that it’s time to go beyond is the beginning of the Journey of awakening. Here’s the fine print: Once you begin, there is no turning back. I’ve tried. We all do.

You have the gist of what I intend exploring in Notes For A Journeyer. I’ll go deeper in Guide For A Journeyer, for which I charge a nominal price. Either way, I’m glad you made to the end of the story. Now, let's go back to the beginning.

Dalur