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     “Why Life Stories Change, Are We a Result of Choice or Circumstance?” was partly inspired by the anonymous poem, “REASON, a SEASON, or a LIFETIME.”

      This book is a brief philosophical text to argue against a strictly deterministic, and hence limited, view of the universe. It is primarily presented as a reflective memoir. The idea that stories change depending on the teller is a familiar one. Still, the implications are significant when you realize that our identity and existence are built on a self-constructed narrative and that we change over time. The book raises some interesting and valid philosophical points about how these narratives shift over time, drawing on a text that is mainly autobiographical but still uses other sources.

There are fundamentally two messages here.

    The first seeks to explain and validate that our narratives, including what many think of as objective memories, are mutable over time. This mutability allows us to change and develop as we progress.

     The second explores ways different aspects of our experience interact with those narratives.