A Break in the Script

Dear friend,

We do our best to avoid a break in the script.

But life is a break in the script. It exists beyond the script.

Scripts are comforting—knowing what’s coming (or thinking we know) feels more safe.

But we don’t know. We never have. We can only pretend to know.

Pretending uses up our energy. Eventually we tire — and that is often what leads to a break in the script. We see it as a problem, but life uses it as an opportunity.

The break is an opening.

Life flows through what is open.

There is no end to life’s flow — only a shortage of openings through which it can flow.

You are that opening. Don’t waste your energy sticking to the script.

—Nathan