Not the Truman Show

 

We are either cause or effect in our life. Making things happen, or reacting to things in motion. Leading how we want our life to look, or following what is already happening. Causing has power -- empowerment -- we are the source, the engine, the creator. Being at the effect has no power -- no artistry -- a constant reply to someone else's email. And we are off the hook. We can complain that it is someone else's design, it's their fault, because they did it. It's easier not to cause, to allow others to lead, to be at the effect of life. It's never our responsibility. And yet, what is the impact? We are left at the end with a life that isn't our own, a Truman Show, governed by the man in the moon. What if we sailed to the edge of that world, and stepped out? What could it look like? What might be create, build, design, write, lead? Lots of unknowns, of mistakes, accidents, messy fumbling through, as we learn and grow. And yet it is at least our life, and something we made. And at the end, we have a life with the full palette of an artist who created something that is ours.