“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…” ~ Pema Chodron
Our remembering is warped… we should write our stories… write down what happens in our life, what affects us, making each day important enough to remember.
They say that every time we remember a memory, our mind adds new facts/fictions. We cannot remember a memory exactly. Memories are considered through new eyes.
I encourage all of you to write your stories. Tell about your life on your own. Do not let others define you.
Leave a legacy behind. We may think that no one would be interested, and perhaps, thee generations might not. But, down the road, some progeny is going to wonder about who you were. Have your own say.
Then make each day something wonderful to write about, or art journal about, so that your soul is put to paper/substrate. Each creation you make says something about you.
Don’t write/create as if you were perfect. No one would be interested in that. Write/create it real. Be an example of how you made it through tough things. Show your flaws so you are real, not the happy happy pretend self. Be human. Write/create about your humanness. Write about those arrows in your heart.
©Carol Desjarlais 2.3.21
Resourse: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/ethical-wisdom/201711/writing-awaken-the-story-your-life
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