Tell me a story......

Tell me a story.....for who amongst us doesn't have a tale to tell? A tale of life and death; of laughter and tears; of love found and love lost; of shattered dreams and dreams come true; of loss of hope and hope that rises again like the phoenix from the ashes.


Yes, we all have our own tales, each one as individual and unique as we are ourselves.Each life with layer upon layer of stories, interwoven and as complex as the steps in the most intricate of dances.


Some of us will travel and our minds will record amazing and wondrous sights from far off lands, while others will go nowhere and live out their whole lives in the same small community. For them perhaps, the most wondrous sight of their lives will be when they first look into another's eyes and recognize love, or when they gaze at the face of their newborn child for the very first time.


Whose life is the most enriched? Who can say? Certainly not I.


I wonder too....do we come into this world as blank slates upon which life will write our fates, or do we arrive carrying with us the memories of our ancestors, generation upon generation, buried deep within our subconscious?


What of the walls of our houses? Do our struggles and fights, our tragedies and laughter seep into the very framework of our homes and create a record for all time that will in some way affect the generations to come? A haunting thought.....or just a haunting perhaps?


I believe our life experiences are what makes us.....molds us.....for would we be the same had our paths through life taken very different twists and turns?


So why not, if you can, find the time in your busy, busy lives to sit with a friend, or two, or three and tell your stories, one to another? I promise you they will all be different and each day, each week, will breathe life into yet another new tale.


For our stories, you see, will survive far longer than these bodies of ours and maybe....just maybe, the air and the walls around us will hold the memory of who we were and what we aspired to be and a part of us will live forever.