There can be risks in personal storytelling. Sometimes we use our life story to beat ourselves up or hold ourselves back. “It’s all my fault!” “I’ll never be happy!”
But the upsides of personal storytelling far outweigh the traps. Storytelling allows us to take events that are exceptional, unforeseen or otherwise out of the ordinary and convert them into meaningful, manageable chapters in the ongoing theatre of our lives.
How will you know when that happens?
It’s a fairly simple feeling. And it’s not the feeling of ending at all. It’s the feeling of beginning. It’s the feeling that you’re ready to plunge back into the woods, dive back into the waters, jump back into life.
You’re ready to dream another dream. And to utter the most spellbinding, life-affirming words we can utter. The words that suggest a new story is coming.
Source: Feiler, B. (2023, January 19). Could your life story use an update?
Here’s how to do it. Ideas.TED. https://ideas.ted.com/could-your-life-story-use-an-update-heres-how-to-do-it/