What is your Story?

There's one certainty in this world and that is at some point in your life you will deal with loss. You lose your job, you have a serious injury, or you lose someone you love. It will feel like your world is falling apart. But as hopeless as it might seem there's something you can control: you can choose the story you tell to explain that loss. The psychologist Dan McAdams says that we make sense of the world and the things that happen to us by organizing our experiences into a life story. This is called narrative identity. Like any story yours has a beginning, middle, and end, and so the way you tell it filters how you remember your past, how you perceive the present, and how you imagine your future. And so it doesn't just explain why you're the person you are today, it also influences who you will become. 

So what is the story you are telling yourself?