..we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where we are ourselves the only constants linking yesterday to tomorrow. There is nothing wrong with that, and I don't want to imply that there is by saying how much this shocked me -- just that it felt so suddenly, painfully right to think that I have tapped into my Long Tale, that I have set my feet on the path I want to walk the rest of my life, and that it is a path of stories and writing and that no matter how many oceans I cross or how transient I feel in any given place, I am still on my Tale's Road, because having tapped it, having found it, the following is inevitable..Amal ElMohtar
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It was not always this way. I grew up with the idea that we were born, we died, and there was nothing more after that. I thought it was inevitable that we would end up where we were heading: to a life of working and making money and then dying and leaving behind a life of money and work and death. I believed that we were born, we died, and we were gone forever. We were born into our own bodies, we died when our bodies stopped working. There was nothing more after that. What I found is that this is so very wrong -- so very wrong as it pertains to what makes us alive as people, but also as it pertains to how we tell stories about those lives. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling down or getting hurt or losing something or someone: it lies in rising up once again and beginning the next stage of your life with all your heart and soul and grit and courage -- because you can do it! You can rise up once again! And you can do it because you have a story that is uniquely yours, a narrative arc that you can walk with purpose, because you are who you are, because you are the one who has come to this moment on the Road of your Long Tale....
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