Stories

Jessica Cyphers, a friend from childhood, wrote an interesting piece on her personal blog about the humanity of, well, humanity:

Oh, and, we all have a story. This one is definitely 100 percent. We tell our stories in many different ways: the way we act, the way we dress, the way we carry ourselves, the way we brush our teeth. Some of us have good stories; some of us have bad. None of us have perfect stories. But all of us are interested in other people’s stories.

I like this notion of having a story and I would add place to the list of ways we tell our story. The places we live our lives are at once fundamental to forming our stories and a way we tell our stories. The places we live in, the places we love, the places we craft and build - these all tell a story of what we value and who we are. We all have a story, but the story is incomplete - still mostly unwritten. We can shape our lives, our places, our customs and habits. And in doing so we shape our stories. Our stories may be inescapable but they are not inevitable.