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How you see yourself and connect to the events in your life changes over time. How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative shapes who you are and is a fundamental part of being human.
To have relationships, we've all had to tell little pieces of our own stories. We share our life stories every day, and the story we construct over time has a great deal to do with our self-identity.
In Why Life Stories Change, author Brent M. Jones offers some thoughtful reflections and personal stories to show how the events of our lives can be reshaped over time, resulting in positive changes and a reinvention of who we are.
Why Life Stories Change: As your look at your own life story, you see yourself differently →
“The events of our lives can be reshaped over time, resulting in positive changes in our self-identity”
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.
