Viewing your life as a story may make it more meaningful, but it will also close off possibilities.
Further, the dark episodes might prevent you from taking generative action in the present.
And they may keep joy from your life.
If there were no constraints, anything could happen at any moment.
As I type these words, my boiler might explode or a letter could arrive with news of a tax rebate.
Each moment is a separate event but, left unchecked, your left hemisphere will join the dots in an attempt to make sense of things.
But whatever sense you make of it is a fabrication, just like the story.
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Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back, by Karen Simecek, associate professor of philosophy at University of Warwick
I am not a story, by analytic philosopher and literary critic Galen Strawson
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