Why Life Stories Change: As your look at your own life story, you see yourself differently
Brent Jones
Why Life Stories Change: As You Look At Your Own Life Story, You See Yourself Differently states who we are in all the events in our life, especially those we connect with. We choose the events that connect each time we tell our life stories. We do just that by putting together the narrative of who we are in our own life stories.
We can pick which of the events we connect with, what we conclude about them, and then weave and reweave them into our story. As my story changes with the retelling, it changes me. I become different because of how I see the story.
The narrative includes our experiences and those we have known. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and all those lives influence us.
A poem by an unknown author suggests that:
"Some people come into our lives for a reason, some for a season, and some for a lifetime.”
Compare: Some see the poem this way
Some believe that God sends the people that are needed into your life, and others who may come bring challenges and darkness.
Why Life Stories Change - Book Focus
Your Life’s Narrative shapes who you are. The Story you tell yourself Matters. Your life story is your reality, Reinvent Yourself by relooking at your life’s narrative. Create your narrative as you look back, Connect the events of your life. Stories change with retelling.
Books Table of Content
Poem
How you see yourself changes
Our life story creates our identity
Many lives make up our humanness
Summers by the river
A job change for my father
Reflections on my story
Lessons on music and art
I had the experience but missed the full meaning
Do mistakes define you?
A missed intellectual opportunity?
Is it my weaknesses that become the connections in my life story?