The Story of Our Lives

Life is nothing but a story. There are characters, settings, major events, minor events, subplots, emotions, descriptions, the story-line, a beginning, a middle, an end, everything. There's how every character acts as opposed to what they think, and when we're reading it from third-person, we can see all of that. You're watching yourself make choices. So, you, yourself are the reader of the story, main character of the story, and author of the story, all at the same time. And then, every other character has their own story that they're reading and writing, and every character in their story has their own also. Life is honestly just a story. I'm sure you tell small stories of what happened on a certain occasion sometimes. I'm sure you tell large stories of what happened sometimes. I do. Everything I blog has a story to go with it. Those are both the minor and major events of my life. The subplots, and the story-line. They're parts of my story, just as the stories you tell are part of yours. And having that said, everything in your story is divided into chapters as well. And those chapters are not hard to determine, either.

A week ago was the closing show for The Sound of Music. It was a sad time for some, and a time or relief and less stress for others. The whole process it was, right from my audition, to the closing of the show, was a chapter. the auditioning and getting the timing wrong at the beginning, complaining about it, and having everyone telling me I did great, getting a callback and being put in the finals for the role of 'Louisa', being upset after the callback, getting cast as a nun, first read-through, first real rehearsal, many more rehearsals, sudden director change, blocking the show, loads of rehearsals, tech week, opening weekend, brush-ups on Thursdays, another weekend, a huge fight with my best friend, forgiveness, another weekend, cast and crew party, exclusion, another weekend... and then it's over. That was all one chapter of my life. And guess what? The next day, I was headed to New York. The immediate start of another chapter.

Lying in bed the night of the last show of Sound of Music, I realized something. I realized that, after everything that had happened, all the drama, right from the beginning until the end throughout Sound of Music... was mostly over, just because SoM ended. That chapter of my life had closed. Things were still a bit rocky on that day, but the show was over. And within 12 hours, a whole new chapter would begin. That made everything seem a bit more trivial, and small. Like my worries and problems were a little bit more relaxed, at ease. Like they were easier to handle, just because the show was over. That saying, "All's well that ends well," is true. It doesn't matter how you got to the end, as long as you get there. It doesn't matter what you had to do to resolve the problem as long as it's resolved. Some chapters of your life may be shorter or longer than others, but they're still chapters. They still had their ups and downs, problems and solutions, their good days and bad days. And at the end of the chapter, things will be okay. A little bit shaky, yes, if you haven't resolved it by the end of the chapter, but still okay. And if they're not...

You have a whole other chapter to write.