write your own script

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

to define for oneself the terms, values, and narrative of one's own life rather than following a pre-written role determined by others' expectations, social conventions, or inherited assumptions; the theatrical metaphor of a script that determines what a character says and does is applied to the social expectations and life narratives that many people absorb from their families and cultures, and writing your own script is an assertion of the freedom and responsibility to author one's own existence; the phrase is used in coaching, education, and personal development to encourage people to examine the assumptions they have inherited and to make active choices about the kind of life they want to construct