We humans absolutely alter and embellish our stories – sometimes it’s “to make a long story short,” but mostly it’s to enhance the tale, ’cause who doesn’t love a good story?Here’s the cool part, though: studies have shown that the more we tell a story with the ‘altered’ details, the more we come to believe it actually happened that way. We in fact, fool ourselves and alter the memory until there’s a point where we’re no longer deliberately enhancing the story, rather we’re retelling it the way we’ve convinced ourselves it happened.Which is why you can rarely believe anything anyone says, though you can certainly enjoy it.
here I am, stuck in an airport far away from you…I think it’s important that you and I don’t live in the past. Yeah, occasionally we get together with our friends and retell stories about the fun we’ve had… but more often, we’re too busy making new memories to reminisce. I’m glad for the time it took us to come together; it’s made things so much more beautiful and we’ve been able to see God’s hand at work through it all.
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We humans absolutely alter and embellish our stories – sometimes it’s “to make a long story short,” but mostly it’s to enhance the tale, ’cause who doesn’t love a good story?Here’s the cool part, though: studies have shown that the more we tell a story with the ‘altered’ details, the more we come to believe it actually happened that way. We in fact, fool ourselves and alter the memory until there’s a point where we’re no longer deliberately enhancing the story, rather we’re retelling it the way we’ve convinced ourselves it happened.Which is why you can rarely believe anything anyone says, though you can certainly enjoy it.
here I am, stuck in an airport far away from you…I think it’s important that you and I don’t live in the past. Yeah, occasionally we get together with our friends and retell stories about the fun we’ve had… but more often, we’re too busy making new memories to reminisce. I’m glad for the time it took us to come together; it’s made things so much more beautiful and we’ve been able to see God’s hand at work through it all.