The Direction of Intention

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Every story has multiple layers of meaning and each layer has multiple interpretations. Stories are meant to open slowly, each layer of meaning revealing a new layer of possible meaning, each layer of interpretation giving way to a wholly new point of view. This is particularly true of the story-you-tell-your-self-about-your-self. You are fluid, every changing; not fixed.

If you doubt this, take a look back at your life. Choose any moment from your past and review it, roll it around in your memory. How do you story it now that might be different than how you saw it 5 years ago? Each time you remember a moment you are reconstructing it; memories are not fixed in time. They are not isolated and true. They are fluid and available for any number of variations. You story your past just as dynamically as you story your present.

It is trick of language that something as changeable a memory is a noun, a “thing” that exists independent of your telling. Memory is a noun like river is a noun. It leads you to believe that you are describing something concrete instead of a dynamic life rushing toward its inevitable ocean.

How might you experience your life if you weren’t so wedded to your interpretations of your past?

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