The importance of finishing one chapter at a time.

Chapter of a book? of life? of what exactly?

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Whether you're a book lover or not, you would agree that to understand a story thoroughly, one would have to read every chapter of a book.

Of course, you have the freedom to skip through the chapters if you’re really curious to know how the story ends. But as wonderful the freedom of skipping through is, are you going to enjoy the actual story?

No doubt you’ll finish the book quicker but you’ll indeed miss out on the important details and events that occur throughout a book.

Not only that, but the story won’t make sense to you. Yeah, you’ll get bits from here and there but some puzzle pieces will remain missing.

Doesn’t this sound familiar to our life? How often do skip through things, moments, people and places because we’re not enjoying it? Or perhaps, we’re not patient enough and we want to reach the end of it already.

So what happens when we choose to skip?

Now I won’t judge you if you skip Math class. Run for your life. Just kidding, please don’t skip your classes!

Unless Math is giving you a headache.

1. You don't wanna miss out!

I think this one is self-explanatory: what you skip, you miss.

But here’s the thing, details are the bricks for any story. To build and develop it, you’ve got to add details to it. Not every detail is going to be fascinating or heart-warming, but it’s still an important brick to add!

Sometimes in life, we tend to skip moments, events, people and places because we’re too focused on the next moment or the next thing.

We forget to enjoy the current moment we’re in. We refuse to be in the moment. Whether it's because we get bored or we don’t care about the current ‘details’. But these details we try to ditch, matter.

2. Things won't make sense

This is when you have the 'whaaat?' moment.

Have you ever tried skipping chapters of a book or movie scenes which then leaves you with nothing but confusion?

That’s because things don’t make sense. And when they don’t, we get frustrated.

When we skip moments, events, people and places, it causes us to lose the sense of the story and not completely understand the connection between the events.

And here’s the thing, even if you do go back and read a previous chapter or watch a previous scene, it will no longer be fascinating or fun because you’ll already know what happens next.

3. It feels like a job

No thanks.

When reading a book starts to feel more like a ‘job’, you lose interest.

You stop enjoying it the way you initially intended to enjoy. It becomes a task you desperately want to tick off of your list.

Once we start skipping, we enter the lets-get-the-job-done-already phase where you don’t care about the story anymore, all you care about is finishing it.

And friend, this is what we do in our lives and I am the first to admit.

We just want to skip and skip and when we finally get to the end of the ‘book’, we feel meh, due to what was once a passion now turned into a chore to complete.

4. Is the end enough?

Now that you got to the end of it, are you happy, satisfied, or surprised?

We dream of knowing the end but what if the real meaning is found in the midst of the big and small details of the story?

Some endings are easier to predict than others. And some are very surprising. Not what you expected.

Long story short, this blog is written to encourage you to enjoy every chapter of your life whether it’s a good or a bad one. Whether you wish the writer added more or less dialogue.

Whether you wish some characters weren’t involved or were more involved.

5. I don't have a fifth point

That's right. But I wanted to make one just for the looks of it because four points looked odd hehe. Congradulations you've come to the end of this blog. I hope you enjoyed reading it!

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