Your Story Only Ends After It’s Begun

We’re all going to die one day. Why not live a little first?

We all know how the story ends:

Ext: everything is blackness, save for a tiny orb of light, gradually growing in size and intensity. DEATH strides onto stage.

Our last page, a Times New Roman typefaced “The End” printed there, bold and italicised and indisputable. We all know what’s coming. We all know that’s how our story goes.

But we don’t know what words are printed on the pages leading up to it. Or how many lie between this one and then. We don’t know what our chapter titles will be and what characters might appear within them. We don’t know our own full plot yet.

But we do get to choose it.

We’re the writers of this story and though we cannot stop our tale from ending, we can certainly make it a memorable one. We just have to write it well.

We just have to live a little, before we die.