Narratives

the fancy word for stories is narratives everyone lives in narratives every fashion out there is a narrative that's being created sports cars are a certain narrative SUVs have a certain narrative those giant monster SUVs they're another narrative then there's like narratives of theid community there's The Narrative of the Holocaust Survivors there's The Narrative of being a New Yorker while there's another narrative that takes place in California there's The Narrative of your personal family there's The Narrative of the things that happened to you when you were a kid that created the story of your life all of us live inside narratives the problem is is that a lot of the narratives are not necessarily very functional some of our narratives are dysfunctional and those dysfunctional narratives can be ending meaning we can stop telling the story you don't have to keep telling that story now why would anyone tell a story that's not functional and the answer is because people are afraid of not having an identity so like I'll even have a negative story surrounding my life I'll have negative narratives as long as well now I'm somebody I'm the person with this complaint or I'm the person with this you know frustration or this this blockage or or this this relationship issue that keeps coming up in all my relationships those are stories they're the stories that we tell and the opportunity is right here and right now to finally start taking responsibilities for the stories that you tell the time is now to take responsibility for the stories you tell to really own it yeah stuff happened when you were a kid and someone was mean and someone was whatever and you know things happened but they happened past tense who keeps telling the story I mean do people call you and like remind you oh can I remind you of all your issues you know can I tell you about your story you're in no one does that no one's doing that you're doing it today is the day to stop telling that story if your story about yourself and it's not just one story it's you know layers of stories if it doesn't inspire you let it go just drop it you might say to I can just drop it I mean that's all I know okay well then figure out how you can drop it start today drop your story and be a pleasure for those who love you for those who share their lives with you for those who work with you for your Community you'll be a pleasure drop your stories and start creating stories that you love stories that inspire you stories about you that really draw out the greatness that you are