The Stories We Tell

As children we think about stories as wonderful ways to see the world, or an escape from a reality that we did not want to face. As we grow up stories take on a new meaning. A story is as it always has been a tale, or an exaggeration of the truth. We tell stories all the time, these stories are all about what has happen to us over the course of our lives. We get sucked into believing that these stories are our truth and at times we tell these stories over and over again, to ourselves and others. A story can be as simple as the loss of a first love that crushed any hopes of finding true love again or failing a class that prevents you from moving forward in your education because of the feeling of being a failure. Whatever the story is, it is not real and this is what we all need to understand. We can change our lives by seeing the false beliefs that we carry around with us and change our perceptions about them. By acknowledging that something has happened and developing a way of making it into a statement of fact instead of a story we tell. We can stop buying into the false beliefs and create a healther life.