We'll begin here: believe it or not, you're always telling your story. Every day in fact.
It isn't your whole story, but it is a story.
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Your story matters, because your story is life-shaping, life-defining and life-changing. It has the potential to chart and change the course of a human life. Isn't that incredible?
Let's look at some of the changes that can be wrought through telling your life story:
Ever wondered why Christians and Ismailis don't get together more?
Well now there's no excuse!
We firmly believe that, if we can just get in the same room, we'll see that Christians and Ismailis can be friends. That is, after all, why we're called 'Ismaili Friends'!
Stories are both the gate and the gatekeepers to our emotions. They open the way to a deeper self-understanding.
But that understanding doesn't end at us. Good stories are intense windows into someone else's life, someone else's experience. By evoking in us the emotion that the protagonist feels, they allow us to identify.