Stuck in the Prologue

"I have nothing to read," he complained.
"Haven't you just started a book?" I asked hesitant to trust my memory.
"It was last week, Mom!"
There was impatience in his voice, and a surprise on my face.
"It took me forever to read it, and I never made it past a certain point..." I conveyed to him.
"That's because you were stuck in the prologue!" his insight was. "I skipped it."
- A conversation with a ten-year old.


One day years ago my mother shared with me that her whole life she would be dreaming something up waiting for a day when it comes true. She felt she spent her life in preparation never actually moving into the action. I doubt she intended it as a lesson; she was just sharing her feelings, and yet she shared with me one of the greatest lesson on wisdom, for which I thank her daily.

How often do we feel inspired, get excited about some idea, even start the creation process - and never get to the point of accomplishment? Without long analysis of what causes that phenomenon, let's just use feelings. How does it feel to be stuck? It is a sticky place, is it not? And the biggest issue is that we have been creating that rut for a long time.

Starting early in life, we collected beliefs, dogma, judgments; we've been trying to fit in, and we learned the rules of conformity to gain illusion of comfort; we accepted expectations of our surrounding for us as our own; we decorated ourselves with the second-hand clothes of wrong size, color, and fit of someone else's truth; and ended up with a heavy buildup of doubt, mistrust, and perceived lack of power.

It worked. And it is time now to clean all of that - when you are ready to move to the Book of your life. There is a small difference between your life and a book though. Real life has no prologue; it has no description, or abstract attached to it. You are free to created it in any way that brings Joy to your heart. Just do it. No prologue.