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Narrative Driven

I love narrative.  I make a story out of everything.  I look at the big picture – the whole story – the beginning, the middle, the circumstances, experiences, actions, the where we are now, what works, what informs, the where is this going and what might come next.  And I do it with everything—politics, events, people, news, television shows, movies, books, my life, and the lives of everyone I know.  It is actually how I see the world.  For so long I felt like there was something wrong with me because I appeared to have a more detached attitude than others because I don't dwell on the details of a situation.  I have trouble staying with the details of and the feelings of the moment without straying to the big picture and the rise and fall of a whole life.  It sometimes comes across as a lack of compassion.  I realize now that I don't lack compassion, I just see more there than the pain or challenge of the moment.  Life is long and ea...