Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

Maybe there’s no creator and no cosmic plan. Maybe our existence is just a fluke, after millions of years of blind fumbling. But at least we’re not alone. We have each other.

A branch called ‘narrative psychology’ has emerged that looks at how we use stories to make sense of our lives: rather than think of the events that happen in our lives as unconnected dots, we join the dots into stories that not only reflect who we are, but also show how we’d like to think of ourselves.