Experience

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My long lost friend May called me out of the blue yesterday. Three minutes into the conversation, we talked about life. Life is made up of events. Although individual events seem accidental, woven together they form relationships and experiences which impact how you feel about yourself. In that sense, nothing is accidental. Everything intertwines impacting your future life, ultimately creating your present and future life experiences. May joked that there are two types of people in the world. One type creates stories and the other listens to stories. Story creators are full of surprises and new initiatives, their life experience is exciting. Listeners get excited just observing them, wanting to be included in these stories.

At lunch time, I was five minutes early and while waiting for my friend I noticed a table with four ladies talking and laughing. What a happy table! I could not help notice that one lady was radiant with happiness and excitement. That made her so beautiful and attractive. She was the story creator naturally drawing her friends to her. She smiled and talked to the waiter. The waiter walked away with contented smiles. I was no longer bored waiting.

I thought to myself, "Will I have a boring or a marvelous lunch?" I smiled to myself. Indeed I had a great lunch with my dear friend who just came back from Singapore. She is also a wonderful story creator.

Are you a story creator? Are you going to derive more satisfaction, contentment, excitement and enjoyment from your daily existence?

Are you a genuine story listener? Are you going to participate and be part of other people’s stories? Are you going to influence and help them to create a even more exciting story with a happy ending?

What’s your holiday story? Are you going to decorate your house and smell the real Christmas tree in your living room? Are you going to write a few words to people you care about, people you love?

Life is your own experience and you are the creator of your own stories. I am sure that your story is exciting.

Happy Holidays!

Best wishes to you and your family. Have a wonderful 2011.

Elizabeth Xu

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