The Best Stories

In our cul­ture, we value pro­duc­tiv­ity, mak­ing money, and buy­ing cool things, but at the heart of every great story is relationship.

So why do we tell these bor­ing sto­ries about mind­less pro­duc­tiv­ity with our lives? Yes, mak­ing money is impor­tant. You have to eat and it would be nice to send your kids to col­lege. I have seen poverty and it’s an ugly thing. But that’s just fundrais­ing. It’s not life. And if it is your life, you’re not liv­ing a very inter­est­ing one.

The best sto­ries, like the best lives, revolve around rela­tion­ships, rela­tion­ships that are begin­ning and rela­tion­ships that are end­ing, rela­tion­ships that are destroyed by death and res­ur­rected by for­give­ness. Life is about relationship.

So go live a good one today.

Turn off your com­puter. Stop writ­ing. Stop doing email.

Your work can wait. But your life won’t.

Photo by Vinoth Chandler

From : http://thewritepractice.com