We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
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By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
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