No one knows how to tell their story anymore … The Linear life is dead … life is filled with chaos and complaint, periods of order and disorder, linearity, nonlinearity … loops, spirals, wobbles, fractals, tangles and turnarounds.*
Bruce Feiler

The essential trouble … is that the driving force of modern life is that fatally misguided idea that reality should be made ever more controllable – and that peace of mind and prosperity lie in bringing it ever more fully under our control. And so we experience the world as an endless series of things we must master, learn, or conquer.**
Oliver Burkeman

Optimisation of the everyday life is
an illusion, the fourth elemental truth stating,
You are not in control^ –
Better to create a story that dances imaginatively,
Playfully, meaningfully with reality.

At the heart of this pirouetting story stand two major themes,
Wrapped around questions that will
never be completely answered –
Who is my True Self? and
What is my Contribution? leading us
into an infinite story unable to be
completed in a single lifespan.

*Bruce Feiler’s Life Is In the Transitions;
**Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations For Mortals;
^Richard Rohr’s Adam’s Return.