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Dialogue with my muse |
JOE: Good morning Calliope. CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How is your narrative time line coming along? JOE: Pretty well. I have finished documenting my life line up through age forty. CALLIOPE: What have you learned about yourself so far? JOE: I am beginning to see how my teenage isolation affected my rush to marry without due consideration as well as my professional and social relationships. CALLIOPE: Do you have any regrets? JOE: It doesn't help to wish your life had been different. CALLIOPE: It could have been worse. JOE: Of course. I have seen the lives of people I have worked with over the years. I am grateful to have had as good a life as I have had. CALLIOPE: If you can't change what has happened, what will you do with what you have learned? JOE: First I plan to try to make sense of it. CALLIOPE: How? JOE: When I have finished the time line, I will write down what I have learned from the exercise and then look for patterns. CALLIOPE: To what end? JOE: I hope that seeing the patterns which have developed in my life will give me some hints about where to go next. Talk with you tomorrow. |