 Hello.
You probably don't know me. As you will be seeing me in this corner of the paper from time to time, I feel like I should introduce myself. I'm a story lover, a person who has a high passion for stories and their authors. A person who never gets tired of listening to new stories. And a person who absolutely adores sharing them. Such as the stories you are writing now. You are aware that you are writing a story right now, aren't you?
You are both the protagonist and the author this very instant. The sound you are hearing, the objects around you, that T-shirt you are wearing-all are parts of the this story you live and create. This is your life. It is truly unique, wonderful and extraordinary, but it doesn't have an ending yet. I'm sure you have planed how you want your story to end but that doesn't mean that it will end up that way. Do you know why? You see, what makes your story so wonderful is the fact that it's changing every single minute whether you want it or not. The most insignificant decision you take can change your story forever. I mean one day you might step out of your door and find yourself facing something you never actually thought you would face just because you decided to wake up five minutes later then the usual time. It's kind of a scary thought, but it is also fascinating. No one, not even you, knows how this story will end and every single move you make is constantly changing it. I'm one of those people who spends half an hour to decide which shampoo to buy. I hate making important decisions, utterly despise the act of deciding and try to avoid it. When you just think about how many decisions we make a day maybe you can understand how hard this "story-writing" process is for me. Being an unbelievably indecisive person, the constant change of our stories based on our decisions, as you may have probably guessed, terrifies me. But when I think about it, maybe I'm just indecisive because subconsciously I actually know the great impact of decision-making on my life. I just can't help but wonder how my previous decisions have determined where I am now. I mean, does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
I've seen many movies about this, read several books, seen my close friends live through this, and I think just by observing I can give a positive answer to this question every single time I ask myself… Scary right?
So after all, I guess while we write other's stories with pens and pencils we write our own stories with our decisions. Sometimes we can foresee how this choice we have made will affect our life and we prepare ourselves but most of the time we don't even realize that we have actually made a decision and have just changed the end of our story.
Some say that the ending of a story is what makes it good or bad. If that is true, since none of us knows how ours will end, we can't say whether we are good authors or not just yet. But since we are still climbing to our stories climax we can guarantee a perfect ending by trying making the right decisions. I am aware that this is not an easy thing to do but do not forget that as there is always a way to edit your story, with experienced 'editors' to help you on the way.
So what I mean by all this is basically: You just changed your life the moment you decided to read this article I hope it was worth it.
By Eda Erdem (TRIN/IV)
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