Unwanted collaboration

We like to be the authors of our lives. To control the plot and the sequence of events.

The hard part comes when a chapter we didn’t write gets inserted into our book.

We want to work independently, but the world collaborates with us. And we don’t have a choice.

What do we do when that happens?

Well, like a serial novelist who cannot edit what’s been published, we’ll need to frame the future installments accordingly.

That unanticipated chapter might make sense within the story, or it might be an unexpected twist.

For all but the most catastrophic of unsolicited events, we get to decide whether they change the course of our narrative.

No, the world does not ask before it contributes. But we, we still have pen in hand. It’s still our story, and the future is ours to write.