"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, 'Never try.'" --Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
This is going to be brief. I wanted to jot this down somewhere, and this is as good a place as any! I realized the other day how much I like to sort the things that happen in life like it's a story. This probably is not entirely unique to me. But so often, the focus of that sorting process is finding out what happens at the end. But I don't do this in any other similar context! For example, I don't like it that much when somebody sitting next to me watching a movie or show says, "Ohhhhh, I figured it out. It was so-and-so." And then they're right. I'm watching because I want to be surprised; if I'm not surprised, it's hard to be interested in the rest of the story. It's the promise of the ending, not the ending itself, that keeps you in your seat.
So why do I keep trying to figure out what the ending is, when there's a perfectly good story playing out in front of me?
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the harder i try to figure it out, the harder the process gets, i've realized! so now, i just sit back and let life take me where it leads. and i think the more i really hope for something, the harder i try to figure it out because it is dear to me, but usually God doesn't like to work that way hahaha...hope whatever that good ending you are thinking about comes to pass! :)
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