different sentence, same story

I love thinking about how every tiny instance leads us to where we are today.

A billion different sentences creating one long story. I find so much comfort in that: in knowing that rewrites are not possible and backspaces do not exist.

Every experience, good or bad is part of your story. No matter what has happened to you in the past or will happen to you in the future, it is shaping you. It has brought you here, right now. All you need to do is keep on living. Keep writing your own story. Sentence by sentence. Each one will shape you somehow, and most of the time you will not understand how, but it remains part of the story nonetheless. Each of our stories are uniquely special to us and when you meet someone else your stories entwine and create new sentences together. An addition to your story.

That is so beautiful to me.

Someone very special to me was talking to me the other day about this idea of reframing how you view things. I was reflecting on this, and thinking about how much our narrative affects the way we live and see the world. How we are in control of the narratives we attach to our experiences (sentences). This concept is also so beautifully challenging to me. And empowering at the same time. To know that the way I tell my story and live my story are completely in my control; because I can choose my narrative.

Everything has a narrative regardless of whether we acknowledge or notice it. How we frame an experience of communicative interaction, the way we express or reflect on something we have gone through, the way we view the things we are exposed to through the media, the opinions we form. I’ve thought about this in depth before but it is something I come back to often because I am so enthralled by the way people communicate and the way things are projected in our world. And how much of a difference a change in narrative would make in certain situations. If something was “simply” reframed. And how much power words have and past experiences have and communication has on us as human beings.

These differing narratives are also what make the world so wonderfully diverse and complex. What makes human interaction so complicatedly beautiful - allowing us the opportunity to learn from each other and grow indefinitely.

-A