In our household, movies have one of two endings. A movie can have a Krysta-ending or it can have a Rhonda-ending. With a Krysta ending, everyone meets their challenges successfully, lives up to their full potential, and rides off into the sunset happy, fulfilled, loving and loved. With a Rhonda-ending, the hero dies, the couple divorces, or the dog runs away never to be seen again. It’s not uncommon during a movie for me to say, “I hope this has a Krysta-ending!”
Rhonda says her endings are more like what would happen in real-life. Things don’t always work out the way we want them to. She’s right, of course. But, as I tell her, I don’t watch movies just to see real life. Those are called documentaries. I always hope things can work out better in a movie than they might in real life.
Right now, I feel like we’re all living in a movie and we don’t know which ending we’ll have. The holy teachings of the East through the Bhagavad Gita say all of this is God’s lila or play and we are each called to be participants. The challenge, as I see it, is we’re not shown the entire script ahead of time. We read our lines and move around the set the way the director tells us to. But we are not privy to the entire script. That’s scary.
I’m hopeful for a Krysta-ending. I guess we’ll just have to keep turning the pages and see what happens.
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