Life is fiction. Every day, when you open your eyes, you have two choices to make: either become a protagonist or an antagonist. Every morning, you are blessed with the option to select your role. It is up to you to define your role as protagonist or antagonist for that day. The plot will be more or less the same: you dress yourself up, grab breakfast, and rush for work, but the flipping of the roll for that day is totally in your hands.
If you have some ambition in your life, you “do what you love,” or you have that burning desire to achieve something today, then you are a protagonist. If you have that morning kick and you know what makes you up early in the morning and have a purpose in life, then you are the protagonist in today’s plot and can drive yourself and drive the rest of your day.
On the contrary, if you don’t have that kick start for that day and don’t know what to do in the next few hours, then you are an antagonist for that day. No matter how good things come across to you on that day, you cannot pick the clue, and every situation will come to you as a bad omen. If you don’t have a passion for today’s plot and no burning desire to achieve something today, then some protagonist will drive you away. You will be in your story for a day and in the same old plot, but the story will be written by the protagonist, not by yourself.
Remember the golden rule of every story: the prologue and epilogue. The story starts with a bright sunny day and ends with the protagonist, who lives happily ever after forever. It is the protagonist who drives the story to the plot and becomes known as an achiever by the end of the story. The antagonist disappears somewhere in the middle of the story after the climax. If you want to keep yourself in the story and keep driving yourself till the end of the day and not disappear by mid-day, then you have to choose the role of becoming the protagonist every day without any doubt. This is how life treats you every day and gives you both options. You have a plot ready for the next day, a blank story to be written, and the selection of characters to become protagonists or antagonists lies in your hands.
Life gives you a choice every day: drive yourself or be driven by someone else.
Asif Durrani
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Mar 29, 2022
Also published at Medium
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