Why Your Stories Are Important
Stories have the ability to connect us, inspire us, and teach us valuable lessons. Explore the importance of storytelling throughout history and in our lives today.
Your stories are important because, it is through telling our own stories we understand who WE are and it’s through listening to the stories of others we can understand who THEY are.
In this way:
Judgment becomes empathy
Assumption becomes truth
Racism becomes equality
Enemies become friends
Fighting becomes peace
Pain becomes love
Our stories are the Great Equalizer for all the world’s people. This is how we develop empathy for one another. It is through empathy we learn that everyone is connected by a common thread. We journey through life with similar experiences no matter our colour, race or country of origin, and the more we share our life stories, division among people lessens.
Our Basic Needs are Also Important
We all need the same things:
- security in the form of shelter, food and clothing.
- variety for stimulation of our imaginations, inventiveness and creativity.
- significance, love and connection for a healthy self-worthiness and social structure.
- to grow through our experiences.
- to contribute to the health and well being of others.
Why your stories are important is because the more we share our authentic selves with one another the more we realize, yes, we are different, but essentially all the same in our core.
With this understanding and connection among all peoples, the need for power, greed, war and division will lessen. Maybe it seems too simplistic, but some of the greatest changes in history have begun with a simple idea.
I’ve begun by choosing to share my personal and private stories in a rather large way, by writing them in a book for anyone and everyone to read. I learned my stories had great value by teaching me incredible lessons that enriched my life and I share these too.
What one, small, simple thing can you do to help bring people together?
You can read more in-depth on basic needs in my Free Booklet “6 New and Unique Ways to Bounce Back After Life Knocks You Down” with one click
“Born to Bounce Back” book excerpt from chapter 5
“This is an intensely distressing story for me to write. It triggers me in so many ways I can’t describe them, only feel them. But, it screams to be told. Not for me, not for the good man, not for the family of five, but for the many families who have stumbled along this route. My family simply cannot be the only one to have had to travel this grueling path.”
