Let be

Let Be
Many of us spend most of our life trying to live someone else's life. We are great fixers, and as we watch others we can hear ourselves attempting to 'sort them out'. We hear it in our conversations with others and with ourselves. It sounds like, "They shouldn't...weren't they awful...did you hear about so and so...in my opinion they should". In these moments we waste time trying to write the script of others and forget to write our own. We have no right to write another's script and any attempt to do so is futile, frustrating and doomed to failure. So let be, and taste the freedom from the subtle tensions and anxieties about others by letting them write their own script. Don't miss your life by trying to live someone else's.

Happened upon this today, and it occurred to me that if I spend less time concerned with the doings of others I might get more writing done. But then again, if I didn't dwell on the actions and motivations of others quote so much, what would I write about?

Ground control, or bladder control?

It took Lisa Nowak 12 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes and 54 seconds, travelling a distance of 5.3 million miles, to secure her place last July in one of the world's most elite clubs: voyagers to space. It took her about 14 hours, and a journey of 950 miles, on Monday to destroy it.
Mrs Nowak was charged with attempted first-degree murder yesterday in the most bizarre incident involving any of Nasa's active-duty astronauts. The charge, together with others of attempted kidnapping and battery, relate to an apparent love triangle she was embroiled in with a fellow male astronaut and a female air force captain whom she suspected of being a rival to his affections.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2007498,00.html



If you haven't already spotted this story in the media then I urge you to take a look. Astronauts, nappies, kipnapping! Truth really is stranger then fiction ~ but I can't help feeling that if someone entered such an incident into a novel it might attract criticism for being too far-fetched and improbable...