The Empty White Pages

One late afternoon on the coastal wilderness, when sunset finally happened, a young girl was walking barefoot alone on the sand. She stopped, turned to look back with the intention to review her footprints left in the sand. But nothing remained after the wave erased them. She was about to go on, but as soon as she had just turned around, she was startled because the image now in front of her was a burning fire alongside which was an old woman who sat wrapped in a blanket and was slowly flipping through a book. She calmly tried to approach the woman and asked,: "Where did you come from? Only moments ago, I did not see you. How did you start this fire so quickly?” With a voice slow and clear, the old lady spoke without answering the girl's questions, "Sit down with me, girl. I have something for you to see". The girl sat down by the fire and was handed book from the old hands of the mysterious stranger. The girl curiously flipped through the book and was stunned when she read words that were written about her entire life which included everything that happened to her since birth until that moment. She read all the pages about strange encounters between her and the old lady by the fire on that quiet beach. When she flipped to the next page, it was only blank white paper. She hurriedly searched through the remaining pages, but they were also completely empty white pages that did not contain a single word. Extremely confused, with her eyes seeking help, she begs the old woman, “Does this mean that my life will end here, right now?” “No, daughter! It means that from tonight, your new life begins.” At that moment, the old woman took the book and started tearing out pages beginning from the first page of text about the girl’s life since birth and tossed them into the flames until they became ashes. The old lady burned the remaining pages that contain the words which the girl had read. When finished, she gave the girl the rest of the book that now contain only blank white pages. “You see”, the old lady said, “The wave has erased your footprints in the sand. Your past will never come back, never. Only the present is real. Every present moment is a beginning of your life, and the life which you should hold. There is no comeback for every moment a second time. More importantly, each new day brings you a chance to love, to live, and opportunities that never come back a second time. The future of you is that you are free to choose according to the dreams of yours. And over the remainder of these now blank white pages, the main figure who will write the words to fill the pages about your life is you. Then, just as suddenly as she appeared, the old woman disappeared in the fire and darkness.

Your life and mine are the same as the other girls and everyone - the past is what we wrote in the sand, and the waves will erase it all. What are the key events that we will write today, at this present moment, on the blank white paper. Begin now begin writing something here, now, for your own lives.
 

Translated from the Internet