Flaunt! Build Your Dreams, Live Your Sparkle with Lora Cheadle

How to Live in the Story, Get Out of the Footnotes, and Stay Positive No Matter What The first of this year, we had our main sewer line collapse. Right after we bought our house. And we were flat broke. And were mad. And we felt used, and stupid for not having (or being advised to have) a separate sewer inspection. Sadly, there was nothing we could do about it, except take out a loan and repair the sewer. It would have been so easy to let that disaster define our experience buying that home. Suddenly, the wonderful story of buying a vacation home for our family to enjoy for generations to come, could have become a story of financial disaster, blame, lawsuits and ruination. Fortunately, we were wise enough to realize that what happened to us, was merely a footnote in the otherwise positive story of purchasing a vacation home. Which is relevant for so many of the events that occur in our lives. Whether materialistic, financial or relational, if we want to live a happy life, we have to be consciously aware of what the main story consists of, and what the footnotes consist of. Then, we have to choose where we want to live. Life is full of problems, but our problems are not our story. Our story is our story. Our problems are the footnotes. We cannot ignore the footnotes, but if we want to be happy, we cannot get stuck living in them.