It’s hard to imagine the BILLIONS of people who presently live on this planet Earth. But, if it were possible we could travel around the world and talk to as many people as we possibly could and we would find that everyone of them had a very unique story about their life.
You could start with yourself. You might have to go back into your childhood and think really hard, but I’m sure you could come up with some story that would be truly representative of YOU and no one else. Maybe if you had siblings it could be a story about all of you doing something together. Or if you are an only child you might have remembered a story in which you created a sibling so that you would have someone to play with.
Maybe your story would be about how your parents had to work HARD to care for the needs of the family. Those lean and depriving years may help to explain how you react to financial situations today. It’s possible that your life story would have been just the opposite and you realize that when growing up your family had more material things than many of your friends. So today you have become extremely generous to those who are in need.
Stories would come just like the people who tell them. There would be long (tall) stories and also short ones. There would be very colorful stories and many with a very dark and sinister air about them. There would be those stories that would make you laugh and those that make you cry. We would have to include some stories that lift your heart to unbelievable heights and those that seem to knock you down to the lowest of places.
If you ever really want a huge laugh get a child to tell you a story that they completely make up as they go along. It could be on any subject. The important thing is that it must come directly from the child’s mind. You will probably be amazed at what they are able to create from their imagination. Don’t work about the improbability of what they are saying actually being possible. Just listen to the excitement in their voices and the animation in their delivery.
Consider that journey to the far reaches of the globe. All the people you could meet from varying cultures, upbringing, with their different fears and aspirations. And imagine the personalities of the men, women, and children who make up these billions of living beings. Now consider the time you would have to spend in considering THEIR stories! Time that would be needed to let all the various components really sink into your mind. Imagine the feelings you would gain within your own heart as you let them pour out theirs within the framework of their story!
How long would it take for you to contemplate the real meaning behind the words they have been expressing to you? How could you walk away and not be touched by the happiness or the sorrow that they have conveyed to you? Where could you go to get away from the anguish that they may have expressed by means of their story?
Maybe we could take the time (at least a portion of it) to try to understand some of the people who are the closest to us: those of our own families! Maybe we have lived with and near to these people for many years, but do we really KNOW their story? Perhaps we could begin by understanding ourselves by telling our own story!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Don't ever enter a duel of intelligence
with an "empty gun."
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