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your own adventure.

it takes time to choose your own reality. even if this is the incarnation you find yourself with the actual consciousness to do it, you won’t know how many lifetimes it took to get here. the soul evolves on a journey of consciousness that takes place in a body, on a planet, bound by time.

everybody shows up in their own movie and everybody does their own casting. the soul orchestrates human connections that give us the opportunity to try on different realities; these are the supporting roles in films starring family and friends, clients and colleagues, enemies and acquaintances. we play our part, finding ourselves in all kinds of roles. in some, we are responsible for just one line in the movie, a single scene. there are others where we end up carrying just as much or more than the lead actor.

it goes on like this for a while, until we tire of it. the awards and accolades stop mattering, the critics are no longer relevant and there’s no amount of money that can reasonably justify all the crying alone in our trailer for anything less than top billing. it comes time to return to our own reality, to our own movie. but we have to choose it. and somehow, it’s always the last resort, the final stop. we always want to find out how much it costs to win the oscar for best supporting actor in a film we hate and as a character we don’t enjoy. and then we do. and then it’s fine to walk off the set. it’s fine to get fired, recast. we finally understand the truth: you have to give yourself full creative control. it will never come from the star or the executive producer of someone else’s movie. and it will never come with permission or consensus or blessing. not if you’re any good and not if you’re too good.

just remember: your own movie will never get made if you’re too busy supporting everyone else’s story. you have to choose your own reality if you want to create your own reality.