Scripts

I’ve been reading a book by Claude Steiner, called “Scripts People Live”. The book explains transactional analysis, which is fairly technical but necessary to wade through. More importantly the book describes where we get our scripts to live our lives. Often those scripts come from our parents, or our reactions to our parents. Their scripts came from their parents and so on.

I’m still not certain what my script is or that I even have a script. However, I doubt that. What has been clear to me is that I have been trying to live by other people’s scripts, especially if I think their life is interesting. Somewhere along the line I find that a particular script doesn’t work for me any longer so I look for another one. My goal right now is to discover my own script. I continually remind myself that so-and-so’s script is not necessarily my script but parts of it might be. It’s also important to realize that my script might continually change. That should not be a surprise to me. I’m getting more and more comfortable with this idea, instead of looking for one answer.