The Awesomeness of Openness

Looking for happiness is like having lived your life before it is over. You know everything important in advance: what you want, who you are. Why saddle yourself with the burden of being a character in such a dull tale? Better make up your life as you go along, and not be too attached to the stories you tell yourself on the way. Learning to know yourself means telling the story of your life in a way that is more imaginative than before. As you come to see your life in the light of this new story, you will yourself change. Your life will then be shaped, you could say, by a new fiction. Framing these fictions is the work of ego-building. The ego is itself a fiction, one that is never fixed or finished. In the realm of fiction we find the plurality of lives which we need.