Virginia stem owens biography of michael jordan

“How was school today?”Isn’t that the first question most parents ask their children when they walk in the door?“How was work today?” we ask a spouse or friend, and, unless we’re very tired, we want someone to ask us a similar question.Why?

Say you go on a trip – an Alaskan cruise or a visit to a previously estranged relative.If you return and no one asks you to tell them about it, don’t you feel that the experience was somehow incomplete?If no one listens to the tale of our travels or trials, we feel a little, sometimes a lot, frustrated.The human race seems to have a deep seated need to narrate our lives to one another.

Again, why?

Because, I believe, we have an inborn need to give a shape to our lives instead of experiencing life as only a jumble of sensations -- just one darn thing after another, a string of unrelated occurrences.We do this by identifying ups and downs, what was good and what was bad about the day or trip or l