One by one, each sentence takes the stage.
It says the very thing it comes into existence to say.
Then it leaves the stage.*
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Life transcends itself not in ‘length’ – in the sense of reproduction of itself – but in ‘height’ – by fulfilling values – or in ‘breadth’ in the community.**
Viktor Frankl

If your life were a sentence to deliver on
the stage of life, what would it say before you leave?

In this analogy, we deliver our line for the sake of others
and gain meaning for ourselves as an effect.

We also know that is not how long the sentence is but
what it eloquently says that matters.

It is a line that we ought to allow our heroic self to deliver,
Ensuring no two lines are ever the same.
You have stages you’re already performing on
and stages you might like to perform on,
and my question is: Would you like to show up there
as the heroic version of yourself?^

*Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several short sentences about writing;
**Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul;
^Todd Sherman’s The Alter Ego Effect.