Cliché is one of the many words we’ve inherited from the world of printing.

It denotes a ready-made phrase .  Instead of setting up the type every time a phrase would be used, the printer would cast said phrase as one piece.  It would then be slipped into the typeset whenever needed – which probably would be a lot.  (Apparently the word itself derives from the sound the type would make when dropped into molten metal to form a printing plate.)

No one really wants to live their life that’s a preformed phrase, or a script or text to be slavishly followed.  We prefer to live originally, in ways full of possibilities.  They don’t have to be big possibilities, only tell me that tomorrow is open and unscripted, not bounded or pre-formed.

We are far from perfect, far from being complete … and that’s the great thing, the thing which gives us hope.  If it were perfect and complete, then it wouldn’t be living, we’d be performing some script or other.

Of course, you may like cliché, maybe there’s a phrase to describe you that it’s become a cliché.

Or maybe you’d love to dump the phrase, not to be typecast.  Perhaps the opposite of your cliché is the art only your life can produce.

All of the above is to say, I am your audience.