Wednesday, January 13, 2010

If your life were a novel . . .

Imagine this. Your life is a story, and you’re the protagonist. This story revolves around you - your interactions with the people in it, your thoughts, dreams, goals, achievements, mistakes, joys and regrets.

How would you describe it? Is your life a routine? Or is it full of unexpected surprises?

Do you enjoy fulfilling relationships with the people you love? Or are your interactions with them too few and bland?

If you can use a colour to describe you and your life, what would it be? Why?

How do your thoughts influence or affect your life, and the people around you? Are they inspiring? Cheery? Or depressing? Moody?

What are you proud of? What are the things you regretted doing?

Does your story bring a smile to the readers? Tears of joy on their faces?

If your life were a novel, what kind of story would it be? Will it be a bestseller? Or not?

I think many of us live our lives as it is, as things happen. But do we stop, look back on the events and reflect? Do we analyse what has been good and bad?

Truth is, we usually don’t. That’s why we make the same mistakes more than twice, sometimes. And we’re blinded. We only see the things we want to see. We’re deaf. We only hear the words we want to hear.

So if we were to write about our lives, many of us might find it so hard to even begin to describe the characters in it. Yes, the most challenging person to write about is normally the one whom we should know like the back of our hands - ourselves. It’s not easy to acknowledge our faults and openly admit it in front of a crowd, is it? But when we’re able to do that, it can be so rewarding. And relieving.

And what roles do the others play and how they play them? How are the inter-relations influencing the dynamics and the development of the story?

If you were to write your story using more than one person’s point of view, how would that change the nature?

I think it would be fun writing this story. Because I’ll never know what experience I would get. What do you think?