Life Scripts and How They Shape Our Destiny

There is a phenomenon in Psychology called “life scripts”, which is one of the five clusters in transactional analysis.

This idea asserts that we all have life scripts which we play-out on a day to day basis that determines the outcomes in our life.

This script determines our career choice and our life goals. It is entrenched in our subconscious and it governs the actions we take and the choices we make. It governs our behaviors, our ambitions, and our purpose in life.

Everything we do, according to the theory, is merely a role-play of internally preconceived notions of how we view ourselves and our life turning out.

We are simply acting out what we already see ourselves doing.

This “life script” determines our routines, our habits and our proclivities. It is the blue print of our end-goals.

By the time we reach early adulthood, we have already established our script to a large degree. We already know enough about ourselves to know what it is we like, what we’re good at, and what we want for our future.

We have, by this time, already predicted a likely outcome for the turnout of our lives. Will we be bold and take action? Or will we be modest and cautious?

Our script is shaped by early experiences and social stimuli in our formative years. If we have had negative social stimuli, we will be more likely to lean towards one spectrum. If we have had positive stimuli, we will be likely to lean towards another. Our life will follow a path that is consistent with our life script.

This is all to the effect of forming patterns of behavior that are familiar and consistent to our subconscious— effectively producing predictable and automatic outcomes that are easy for our conscious mind to follow.

This is where our free will lies.

Our decisions and choices are made before we are even aware that we have made them. Thus, to change our behavior, we must start by changing our programming.

Fortunately, it is possible to do this.

With effort, we can rewire our prior conditioning and relook at the things we fear, the doubts we have, the ambitions we look toward, and the life we believe we deserve.

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