What Does the Movie Trailer of Your Life Look Like?
How many movie trailers have we all watched and either perked up and said, “Wow, I gotta see that when it comes out!” versus “Oh no, not another romantic comedy with the same predictable ending”?
Is your ending predictable?
The movie trailer of your life, I mean.
I have started writing a movie script at several different points throughout my life, ironically each focused on the particular “drama” that I was going through at that time. However, I’ve never truly finished even one of them. And why is that?
Not because the idea wasn’t worthy of peoples’ interest or that I didn’t have the skill or time to actually get organized and write it, but instead because I just never felt like it was “encapsulated” enough.
Each “story” had its different lead in, drama scenes, build to climax and relatively predictable “ending”, but yet I never felt as though it could be “finished” or cut-off so abruptly as to say to the audience “Ok, that’s it, hope you liked it, thanks for coming”.
Rather, I have tried to view each chapter, or stage, of my life, and all of the characters involved, as this fluid, dynamic, unpredictable way of meandering through my own maze of life events, not knowing what is around the corner or if this way or that way is the “correct” way to proceed.
It is definitely not a life for the faint of heart, that’s for sure. But, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Some people think about what their eulogy will say upon their death. Not me, I think about what I will say to myself each and every night in the mirror just before getting into bed.
Did I squeeze every possibility out of today? Did I have a great time today? How many times did I laugh? Who did I meet? In person or virtually. Did I focus my attention on doing the things that I love to do, or did I bitch and moan about anything during the day?
I know I’m a little “out there” when I say this, but I do actually wake up every morning and play a little “movie trailer” in my head (music and all) predicting how I want the day to go. I know I’m a bit nuts! But, it really sets the tone of the day for me… (pssst! I got the idea from the Mind Movie folks in the banner to the right)
So, don’t be predictable as your hours turn into days, weeks and months, making up the real substance of your life.
You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey!
Get those creative juices flowing and envision the different movie trailers of your life each and every day (remember, music and all).
C’mon, make me proud…
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