"this is the ride of your life"

there is a lot of summing up in each passing day. putting your day into a few chosen words. putting those words into a strand to describe a month, and then writing a brief synopsis of your year based on your summations. it's a lot like a child learning to hang words together in the right order. we gradually pick our descriptions, till we no longer provide "useless" information, with too many words and facts, until it is exactly how others will want to read it. but we don't get to pick our stories. so it seems right, that we shouldn't get to pick how they are told, either. life is indeed a gift. and stories, these passing moments that we spend, are all a part of us. not to be cut down to size, or re-shaped into a flattering picture. how much do we lose telling stories that are only half ours? and wanting desperately for what we seem to never be able to hold? be content with your story. if it is not heroic: then live heroically. if it is not self-less: then live selflessly. if it is not loving: then live in Love. but do not simply try to alter your story in words - for even the simplest child knows that the primitive words they use are only a dim reflection of the true story that they tell, that which they have been.