Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2006, at 23:42:41
In reply to Looks like I'm here for the long haul, posted by Lindenblüte on September 19, 2006, at 17:34:24
Remembering is an activity that is done in the present.Remembering can be an activity of narration.
Telling stories to make and remake oneself.
There are facts, sure, but also, even more importantly there are interpretations of facts. Working out what those facts mean for our current lives. And that can be (very much so) an act of creation.
People trying to figure out who they are...
Casting their lives in a way that they feel able to live with themselves...
Their fears and desires.An act of narration...
Remember remembering is an activity in the present and the point is... Accepting yourself for what you are in the present and being better able to become who you want to be...
Isn't it?
Why did you initially go to therapy?
Because you wanted to feel happier?
> And so- I think that changing my name, and changing my hair, and changing my T. well. It's like shedding an identity- a cloak of shame and secrets. I don't know what the future brings. But it won't be like the past.> And you know what I DON'T want to shed right now? It's Psycho-Babble. You guys helped me see so much. Even when I blew T out of the water today with my story of childhood trauma. He had no idea.
Because you were going to tell him...
What you wrote on the post it note.
The things you couldn't tell him in the present.
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