Our personal history
We owe nothing to our personal history; we are not in its debt.
It offers to us a broken and imperfect gift.
That gift, however, is modular. We can choose parts to keep and parts to discard.
All of it — the good and the bad — is told though our own narration.
When the story does not serve us well, we can choose to tell a better story. We can read from the pages that have been written, or we can begin again.
A blank sheet of paper awaits. It can be the next page of an existing novel, or the first page of a new story.
The choice is ours to make.