So often can a single error turn into a train when it was only ever supposed to be a billboard in one’s story. We worry and stare instead of acknowledging and moving on. The theme of our story tells greater than any single character or plot twist. Keeping control of our tone is a huge ideal in upholding that theme. The tone of our story and our voice and our thoughts delivers the theme of our life to reality. Each action we take has a tone of how we present and view the world immediately at hand. Here is where can become lost or forgetful of who we want to be.
Currently I have a piece of paper cut into a feather shape with a quote that reads,”The changes un our lives must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life” and holy shit do I love Tolstoy. This piece of paper is holding the place in Peter Pan, which is incredibly well written, and the whole image is ironic if both are understood. One says you cannot change your stars by conscience demands or mental dancing and the other is about kids lost forever in their youth by the entanglements of imagination. To be able to fly, you just had to think wonderful thoughts is what Peter explains to John on page 45.
We cannot pick a theme outside of ourselves. We can be given or influenced or shoved towards a theme that is not of us, and we will fail. Or live in a failing life. Something wholesome to a true tune our intuition hears and our heart-strings pick up from the other side of a forced walk down a world, not a rabbit hole. A true theme is the tone that feels most real, not strongest or defensive and not commanding or dominating and not hedonistic, pleasurable and escaping but real to our actualized self.
This choice is the best conscious conscience cue to decision and reaction making in one’s life. Is this the part of your story you want to weave?
