stories and experiences

We all have a story to tell. Our lives are full of many small stories in an overall big story. People sometimes ask others, 'what's your story?' By this they could be referring to the story that brought the person to where they are now, or the story behind a certain character trait they have developed over time. 

All stories come with meanings, some big, some small, but every story can teach us something new. This is called experience.

I think that most of the time, what we have learned and experienced from something is far more important than the story that comes with it. Stories can change and develop over time, even if we don't mean for them to, but experience doesn't change in that way. Of course, it changes, but it only grows.

Think of yourself as being an empty piece of paper at birth. Every time you learn something new from an experience, you can put a small mark on the piece of paper. By the time you're eighteen, your piece of paper will be covered in marks. Some of us will have more marks than others, however the number of experiences we have learned from doesn't determine how much we have learned from each of them.

Your experiences can define you. You have the choice of whether to let them make you better or bitter.