october reading recap 📚
Why hadn’t I heard anyone advocate for taking charge of your own story before—for reviewing it, and rewriting it as needed?
Why had no one explained that if you want authority over your own life, you literally need to take the time to author it?
This is why you should start living in your past.
Because the stories we tell about our life experiences ar
... See moreRick Lewis • Why You Should Start Living in the Past
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 f
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more