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A quote from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller:
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d fee robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to feel meaningful. The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.
The question I want to ask myself is, is there some sort of Volvo I’m chasing? Maybe the Volvo is a metaphor that represents any meaningless objects that we feed we need so badly in our lives. If that’s the case, then am I wasting aways years of my life chasing after meaningless things and objects?
Rather than chasing after my own objects of Volvo, and living boring and shallow lives. How can I actually live a life that’s meaningful? A life that’s worthy to be told repeatedly as a story?
That’s it right there. How do I lead a life that’s worthy to be told repeatedly as a story? Maybe the first thing I should ask myself when I wake up is: “How can I create meaning today?”
