life imitates art

i’ve often heard it said that every decision we make in life is a choice between fear and love. and, in many ways and many scenarios, that’s absolutely true.

but i just finished reading a screenwriting book (thanks, j-mo!) containing a similar theory about storytelling that might be even truer when applied to life: everything that happens either moves us towards fear or hope.

what we fear vs. what we hope.

as wonderfully helpful as this structural suggestion is when it comes to plotting out a movie (or any kind of story), i found it to be even more fitting when put in the context of how we live our lives.

because doesn’t everything we do, or everything we think, or everything we feel relate to hope or fear?

we hope for the best.

we fear the worst.

and work our way through all points in between.