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T
hink for a moment about the stories you tell yourself: how you think of yourself, your past, your future and your present,
right now. A few years ago I read about a woman who was extremely
shy. She grew up and married her brother’s best friend and had a couple of children and all the time she remained shy, hidden and extremely introverted. Then one day she was hit by a car, went into the hospital and was in a coma for days. When she woke up, she forgot who she was. Eventually she went on to give speeches about her experience with amnesia. Having forgotten
her story, she wove a new one. This story struck me how much of our lives are defined by the stories we tell our-
selves. In our feature article, “The Healing Power of Story,” we put ourselves as the hero of our own story where we can determine our path, our strengths, our weaknesses and our perspective. But what if we change our perspective? What if we make ourselves the hero of our own story? Why did it take an accident for this woman to change her story? Could she have done it on her own? I’m a big fan of the late writer, professor and mythologist Joseph Campbell, who is quoted in the article and who wrote many books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. He talks a lot about perspective and how each of us is the hero of our own story, while at the same time we are co-stars—and sometimes just extras—in other people’s dramas. All of us are all of these at different times, he said. One of my favorite Campbell quotes is how he describes life:
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