How Telling Your Story Can Benefit Others As Well As You, Yourself

Write your story. Record your story. Dictate your story for someone else to transcribe and write for you. There are sound, compelling reasons for you to write your story and for everyone you know to write theirs.

The words, in the paragraph above, are words that relatives, friends and others have spoken to me,many times, over the many years of my life. The thoughts, in the paragraphs that follow, are thoughts that I have had in recent years or thoughts that have developed in conversations with associates, in recent years.

I share them now because I have finally made up my mind to share my own life story. If any of you who read this have not yet shared yours, I hope that, after reading all of this, you will be motivated to "take pen to paper", or "finger to Key" and join me.

We, each of us, have a valuable tale to tell. No one can tell your life story as well as you can yourself. No one can relate and interpret your honest feelings about the events and occurrences of your life as well as you, yourself can. Therein is the great value of you telling your very own story.

There is no need for you to wait until you've reached a so called, "Ripe Old Age." There is no need for you to wait until you experience some special, "life-changing" event. The prime time for you to tell your story is now, in the present. This is true regardless of the present circumstances of your life.

The reason that now is the time is because right now there are countless numbers of persons who can, potentially, benefit, in their own lives, from hearing about the story of your life.

It does not matter if you consider your life, thus far, to have been one of boring luxury because, seemingly, you have coasted through with little to do and even less to worry about. Your story, well told, is likely to help someone, some where.

It does not matter if your life, thus far, has been marked by continuous trials and tribulations, non-stop heartache, pain, fear, hopelessness and defeat. Your story, told as only you can accurately tell it, is likely to help others endure their own lives.

The fact is that all of us are learning lessons as we go through the days of our lives. Often, we, ourselves do not perceive those lessons. We miss the potential solutions that they reveal. When we tell our stories, other persons often realize the lessons that are being taught and perceive the potential solutions that are being revealed.

The great common good that results from persons telling their stories and hearing the stories of others, is the reason that Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil and other television personalities invite individuals to share their stories live, on the networks.

No one needs to suffer alone. No one needs to endure emotional and psychic pain in silence and isolation. It benefits the listeners to hear the stories of others. It also benefits the tellers of their stories.

Just experiencing the release of pent up stress, as you tell your story, can be of great value. Insights into problems might never have come, or been lost forever, if a person's story had never been told.

We are not alone, in what we experience and suffer through in our lives. It is amazing how often one man's (or woman's) story turns out to be the story of many others.

So, the message is, "Get to Telling." Wait no longer. Even though you can come up with hundreds of reasons, rationales and excuses not to, get on with the telling of your very own story!

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