An editor is a writer's big boss; the one who deletes or re-writes a story or article. In cinema, the film editor splices, cuts and puts together, with director's overall concept, the finished film or movie.
In the movie Back to the Future, I remember a scene wherein Doc Brown tells Marty McFly, a role played by Michael J. Fox, that if Marty did not arrange for his parents to date again, then he and his two siblings will be "erased from existence."
So Marty McFly and Doc Brown had to re-edit the past to make the future work.
If we can only edit our own lives, there would be less sad stories, less complex plots and more happy endings.
What we can do though, is to have at an early age, a well-written script or story. One that has input from our parents, our mentors, our pastor(s) and other experts and well-meaning relatives and friends.
But if we failed to have one such script, we can still re-write our lives while living them. We can add new twists. We can erase existing plots. We can re-do the colors. We can re-invent ourselves.
Just like in the many facebook accounts, or myspace, in the thousand blogs circling the cyberspace, in the million lives lived today- the daily editing occurs.
New friends are added, new posts created, drafts re-written or entirely deleted, pasts blasted out, and new futures lived.
Don't piss the editor. Just do it.
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