The way life flows
- Gracie Heider
- Jun 10
- 1 min read
There are some things that make sense. Some things that it's fairly easy to ordain a purpose for. For instance, when one is reading a book, there is an innate sense of a final objective.
Books have that way about them, a natural rise and fall: the character has something happen to them, something goes horribly wrong and they are devastated. Then they learn a lesson, rise to the occasion and then they go on and live their life on a higher level.
A final objective.
Life will follow this route, if you get enough perspective. Most of the time that is. But you will find that sometimes it doesn't. And it is impossible to tell when you are in the midst of the “something happens to them” if you are experiencing one of those times when everything will end up working out or not.
The point of this story is this: there is no point in telling someone in the “something happens” point that it will turn out in the end.
We carry a natural storyteller in us all and we all know how life works. It's like the knowledge that all of us die. No matter your religion, you know that at some point your existence ends. In the same way we are aware that everything eventually changes. That is why there is no need for informing someone “it's gunna be ok.”
The problem we then run into is: what to possibly say in that empty moment created by not saying it?
That is the point I have been trying to get to. The point of this story.
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