Origin Story | No Mercy / No Malice

If you want to decipher who you are, it’s good to begin with the question of what stories have been told about you. Do this not because they are true but because they will help you locate the mirages and their origins. They will help you rend mask from flesh. They may also help you grab hold of something real.

Each of us are already storytellers, but often we’re not the authors of them.

We are storytellers by default—assigning meaning to our experiences according to the cultural and familial scripts we’ve inherited and missing the chance to choose our own beginnings, endings, and adventures in the middle.

No one lacks meaning in their lives.

What many of us

‘We all have a story to tell – the denial of that story can cause despair.’ I credit this to Arnold Zable but I think it comes from Jungian psychology . We are nothing but the sum of our stories. The more I write and perform, the more clarity it gives me on my personal history and understanding of human nature. Writing releases so many emotions and