What is you story?

The Practice of Being Happy: #7  What is your story? We all have a story, a tale of woe, perhaps, our hope for a happy ending, or reaching the Promised Land; we are all writing our autobiography, our history, our living scripture….but what is it. Do you know? Do things not turn our good in your story. Do you say, “Why me?” when things go wrong. Or something like “Shit happens,” when things go wrong and you think it’s you destiny. Do you expect a certain outcome? Do you feel the victim, the disappointed one, the wronged one?

What is your story, the context in which you give meaning to everyday events? Nothing stands alone. You miss the bus to an important meeting, maybe the second time that week; how does this fit in your story. What meaning to you give it. Our story is like the formula or recipe for our daily bread. It is the shape of our loaf. We are the cook, but we don’t realize we form the dough into its shape. What is the shape of your life?

Facts happen. Stuff happens. We get something, we lose something, we meeting something, we don’t meet something, we go up, we go down, we get sick, we get well, the weather changes every moment…but what meaning do we give it? What face do we paint on our world? THAT is our story.

Today begin to notice how you fit the daily facts of your life into a shape, how each circumstance becomes just another page…your story is your idea of who you are. You have to start noticing how your story is the background of meaning you give to your world. Begin reading this book today!