# Where do we begin?

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- Published: 2024-03-04T08:01:02+07:00
- Author: Cahya

Prompt tulisan harian

Anda sedang menulis autobiografi. Apa kalimat pertama Anda?

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Elias stared at the blank page, the weight of a life threatening to splinter the
fragile paper. Where, in the vast tapestry of his experiences, did he begin? The
grand pronouncements, the epic adventures – they all felt hollow. A life wasn’t 
a heroic saga, but a mosaic of moments, each chipped and imperfect, yet contributing
to the whole.

He dipped his pen, then hesitated. The truth? But truth was a slippery thing, subjective,
shaped by memory’s whims. He considered a dramatic opening, a scene of heart-pounding
intensity. But would it capture the essence of a life that was more a slow burn,
a gradual unfolding?

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Frustration gnawed at him. Was a life even narratable? Was it a journey with a clear
beginning, middle, and end, or simply a meandering through the labyrinth of experience?
He thought of Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, who spoke of a river – you
could never step into the same river twice, for both you and the river were constantly
changing. Was his life then, this autobiography, an attempt to capture a flowing
river with a stagnant sentence?

Suddenly, a smile tugged at his lips. Perhaps the grand pronouncements could wait.
Perhaps the opening didn’t have to be a declaration, but an invitation. He dipped
his pen again, the ink flowing easily now. The first sentence unfurled: “This is
not the story of a hero, nor a villain. This is the story of a becoming.”

It wasn’t perfect, but it held a glimmer of truth. A life wasn’t a static entity,
but a constant process of becoming. It was an acknowledgement that the most important
things couldn’t be captured in a single sentence, but unfolded within the narrative
itself. He had found his opening, not a grand statement, but a whisper, an invitation
to embark on the journey of becoming that was his life.

## Comments

### By: MRJMALAYALAM

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- Published: 2024-03-04T08:07:24+07:00

Hi

Memuat...