Julie Beck gave me a lot of insight on looking at life as a story. There were many instances where I agreed and related to her text. She continuously states that our use in telling our lives as stories is a way of organizing our lives into pieces to express them to other people. She also states that explaining your life is inevitably told as a narrative. It is very hard to explain your life in a different way. Mostly because your life happens in events, specifically one event leading to the next. Finally, she states that different people have different degrees in how deep they engage into their stories. This all depends on how they think of their personal life stories. I felt that I related to the description about how age impacts our narratives. We are capable of telling our stories even at a young age and as you get older those stories that you tell begin to develop and advance into more meaningful and descriptive narratives. I felt that this related to me because as I was young, I mimicked this action of telling my life as a story and as I grew older, I realized that these stories meant something and that was when I was able to advance them and create more descriptive ones. I agree with most of Julie Beck’s text and believed it provided me with insight on how we tell the stories of our lives.
I agree with your statement that we talk about our lives as a narrative because we do experience it in a way similar to a story with one event leading to the next or each event being its own short story. I didn’t strongly make this connection while reading it, but I think it is interesting that you pointed that out. I also noticed in Beck’s writing the description of how our own telling of our narrative develops with age. We are able to describe more as we age and have a bigger understanding of things in general. I think we noticed and related to a lot of the same things!
I agree with most of what you say. In particular, I like how you brought in an example of how you believe you think and the process of how it developed with you.