How can it be so easy to make new friends, fall in love, and have grand adventures; but be so difficult to let them all go and be on with your own miserable little life? Is it the thrill of only reading a book once, then tossing it aside? Making the words on the pages nothing but memories of something you never actually did? Is it so much easier than standing up to yourself and saying, "Yes, I had the courage to meet these people I now love dearly as friends, I do love that man, and we did have great adventures! All of us did..."
But the truth behind every story is that there is always a character that is too strong for her own good. A character that sacrifices everything to be with her companions, her friends, her brothers in arms... and has nothing left in the way of compassion for herself. She thrives on the attention and love she receives from others; but at the same time, despises herself and thinks herself weak that she need depend on them. But, she is not weak. She may in fact be the strongest person her friends had and will ever meet.
It's scary to think of the characters in books as ourselves; that we are nothing more than words on a page, lives that have predetermined endings. But we also have a chance to change what happens between the bindings of the pages, to shape our lives with the characters we are destined to encounter. It may be our choice who we're friends with, who we love, and what we'll do with our lives; however, there's a limit to what the possible outcomes will be. During each phase of our lives we will encounter different choices, and these choices are what allows us to write our own pages - each choice narrowing the endings we are capable of receiving for the story we have written.
The meekest mouse is often the smartest, the confident hawk is often the strongest, yet they both succumb to the end of the ink and die with the words... leaving nothing but memories of a book long forgotten.
~Kjten Enwood ©
But the truth behind every story is that there is always a character that is too strong for her own good. A character that sacrifices everything to be with her companions, her friends, her brothers in arms... and has nothing left in the way of compassion for herself. She thrives on the attention and love she receives from others; but at the same time, despises herself and thinks herself weak that she need depend on them. But, she is not weak. She may in fact be the strongest person her friends had and will ever meet.
It's scary to think of the characters in books as ourselves; that we are nothing more than words on a page, lives that have predetermined endings. But we also have a chance to change what happens between the bindings of the pages, to shape our lives with the characters we are destined to encounter. It may be our choice who we're friends with, who we love, and what we'll do with our lives; however, there's a limit to what the possible outcomes will be. During each phase of our lives we will encounter different choices, and these choices are what allows us to write our own pages - each choice narrowing the endings we are capable of receiving for the story we have written.
The meekest mouse is often the smartest, the confident hawk is often the strongest, yet they both succumb to the end of the ink and die with the words... leaving nothing but memories of a book long forgotten.
~Kjten Enwood ©
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