Endings in Life Scripts

One of the most important steps that you have to analyse and recognize when dealing with Transaction Analysis and the influence of Life Scripts on your personal life experience as an adult is facing its end, that is to say, you have to face the direct results of your actions and behavior. Life script endings, like any other end, especially those in games, deal with the dividing of people into either a winner or a loser.

The fact that this particular stage in your Life Script will have an immense influence on how you develop as a person is quite obvious, since it describes how every and all of your actions will end. The reason to this is not because you have a personal desire of, say, losing a lot in your life, but because on your unconscious level of your psyche you are used to this particular position, which implicitly means that you will always feel in some way discouraged.

Life Script endings usually have three specific role models that show the main positions an individual could occupy. Those role models are Tantalus, Jason, and Damocles, three icons of Greek mythology. In order to better understand what exactly the three positions are, one should first understand the patterns that these three characters fit in.

Tantalus, for example, has his name derived from the verb "to tantalize" and is a symbol for people who's desired objects are out of their reach, rendering them constantly unable to get what they desire. Damocles is a symbol for how power can affect people and influence them in an undesired manner, while Jason is the icon for your average hero, and is often compared to other, more familiar heroes like Hercules.

It is clear that everyone in the world should strive to self-coach themselves to become a Jason, since the alternative is either being a loser and being unable to get what you want for the rest of your life, or being a sort of "winner" on paper, but a loser at heart.