Is there anything better than hearing a good story – or telling a good story? They are captivating, interesting and memorable. We can tell them and re-tell them and they never get tiring. When someone is telling a story you lean in, you focus more, you rarely get distracted. Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. Stories are universal in that they can bridge cultural, linguistic, and age-related divides. They are art and emotion, fact and feeling, we can live without a lot, but, it feels like we cannot live without stories.

And on our THPL journey we have the opportunity to write and tell our own stories. We can, by the nature of the challenges that we take on, create enough interesting experiences that they can come together in the form of a great story. To get there, though, you have to take a moment to look at the essence of what you did, what you learned and what others would want to hear and experience. By reflecting and pondering, thinking and believing, the story comes to life. The story building process is a practice worth practicing. And the story telling process a promise to bring to life your experiences with passion and commitment in the form of the abstraction of life. Give it a try – learn to love stories, tell them, seek them out, live for them. A better way to experience life might be hard to find.

Loving life when telling stories