The seven original plot lines of nonfiction?

"One of the seven original plots in the world,"murmured Father Cassidy.

I came across the above a while ago when rereading 'Emily of New Moon,' and found it rather amusing at the time, and upon further contemplation, the man may have a point.  After a very short google search I even came across this website which paraphrases a book that covers the same topic.  It is actually quite interesting that so many of the world's favorite stories can basically be boiled down to seven basic plot lines; yet how many different and varied stories have been contrived upon these same basic lines?  I suppose it is like life, each life is basically the same when you try to sum it up in one sentence or less: you are born, you live, you die.  But each life is so different and unpredictable that no two are exactly alike; there are as many different stories as there have been people.  It is not the 'plot line' that matters rather it is the unique details that set your plot line apart from all others.  From a distance we all look and act the same, but when you get close, we are each of us unique.  This is why we do not tire of stories though the plots are inevitably the same, each story has some unique twist, an unforgettable character, a lovely setting, a lyric writing style, whatever that sets it apart from all stories that have gone before and those yet to come.  This is why we keep on living though there have been so many lives before; our adventure has not yet been finished, there is something around the next bend or behind another tree.  We have this thing called hope and it drives us onward when really, there should be nothing else left in the world worth doing.  How many bad love poems have been written or sunsets has the world seen?  What is the point?  It is all the same, forever and anon!  Why keep going?

Go on we must for one cannot stop halfway through the story!  And life is the greatest story of all.  Yes, there are dull moment and sad moments but they are part of every story written under the sun (even if they leave out most of the tedious parts).  And unlike your favorite story that must inevitably end, this story we call life does not end with the last page, but rather gets even better.  C. S. Lewis puts it beautifully at the end of his 'Chronicles of Narnia,' "…now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."  I love the idea of a story that does not end!  Of course it would be the world's most frustrating novel (as it would never end) but I always feel some regret once the 'happily ever after' credits roll.  What happens next?  What does The End entail?  We need never say goodbye to the real characters we love though we must to our fictitious ones.  So remember, your life is not pointless nor are you anonymous and forgotten, rather you are the hero in an as yet unfinished story, and it is a story that will only get better and better, at least if you happen to know the Author.