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Think about a time when you… Felt an emotion: doubled over with laughter, burst into tears, or lost your cool. Did something you never thought you’d do. Tried to be something or someone you aren’t. Discovered something about yourself, your environment, your family, or the world. Changed your relationship with someone—for better or worse, a little o

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different fo

Everyone has their tales to tell, and the ones that resonate most tend to be the troubling ones

“Of course,” I said. I brought the paper up to my face. It felt too light to be a vessel for so much meaning. I wanted to breathe it in, for it to become part of me.

We can only hope that the magnitude of the charge we experience reverberates as powerfully for others as it does for us.