On the way home from a wedding in Washington, DC, I was catching up on magazine reading. You may know from past posts that my husband is a cyclist. Through him I developed an admiration for the sport, so I have to mention the reference to an example of its ‘code of honor’ in the summer issue of UU World magazine. Ted Waddington’s article, “The avatar’s advantage,” takes us back to the moment when Lance Armstrong waited for his main rival, Jan Ullrich, who had crashed. (p.14-15)
The article also includes religion scholar, Mircea Eliade’s observation that for people to have meaningful lives they must cast their lives into a story. (p. 15) I would go further and say that we are constantly creating a story whether we are conscious of it or not. It is part of being human. The power comes in becoming conscious of how we collectively and individually create the meaning of our experiences. Then we can decide to create more powerful and healing stories. It is surprising to realize how much of what we experience is actually perspective rather than fact.
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