Life is meant to be fun and our purpose here as human beings is to experience all the wonders, magic and entertainment of this spinning amusement park called Earth. We are the lucky ones, the Spirits who won the admission ticket in the big universal raffle and were allowed entrance to this realm of the physical plane where we can create and do whatever we wish.

Life is like the Prince’s ball: a place where we can connect with other people, dance, sing and play dress-up. But if life is a ball, a fun, amazing adventure, why are so many people having the Cinderella experience of being in a dirty kitchen scrubbing floors? Why is it that only other people, the Ugly Sisters, experience life as a ball?

The reason why is because life is an illusion – it is not real. Our lives are an illusion of the body and mind. Your perceptions, your mind and the corresponding sensations your body feels, create your reality. The secret is: Life is actually one big fairytale and you are the grand, eloquent storyteller. But most of us have forgotten this.

You have the power to create your story.

In each moment you decide the next glorious twist or disastrous turn of your story. You introduce heroes and villains, victims and martyrs, supporters and foes. You determine whether the story is one you like or one you can’t bear.

A delightful fairytale character existed in the twentieth century. He had a thin, black upward-pointing moustache, a cape, a walking stick and a haughty expression. He was originally a self-titled and later a world-renowned ‘genius’ – he was the artist Salvador Dali. He intrinsically knew he was the star in the movie called Dali’s Life. As a result, he created a life of fun and immense pleasure – he was a man who created a life he wanted. He even had a line in his ‘movie’ called life that encapsulated his mischievous, playful approach to the creation of his own story:

‘Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dali – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dali going to accomplish today?’

This was a man who drew clocks melting like camembert cheese to explain the illusion of time; who allowed his genius to express itself in whatever form, and who truly understood the surreal nature of life. In an interview on the program 60 Minutes, Dali kept referring to himself in the third person – an outrageous character he created who expressed his true essence.

Why don’t we all wake up with this kind of exuberance regularly? Why don’t we get out of bed, blissfully bounce to our bathrooms, look in the mirror, kiss the magnificent image that greets us and exclaim ‘Goodness, how wonderful to be me! How incredible to be a grand creator. What do I wish to create today?’

Instead, most people have become stuck in a boring, hum-drum nine-to-five existence called ‘this is life’, believing that this is real and can’t be changed. How sad! We have forgotten that each of us is a master storyteller with a skilful pen to create any story we want. Each of us is the only storyteller responsible for the creation of our own lives.