This post was inspired by Lin Manuel Miranda and ‘Hamilton’.
History is ‘His’ ‘Story.
No matter what happens, it is kept alive in memories, writing, and stories. And whomever keeps it alive interprets the story.
However, eyewitness testimony, or individual human memory, has been shown to be among the LEAST reliable way to relate things that happen (
However, eyewitness testimony, or individual human memory, has been shown to be among the LEAST reliable way to relate things that happen (https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/myth-eyewitness-testimony-is-the-best-kind-of-evidence.html).
So ‘who tells your story’ is incredibly important if you want the story to resemble the ‘truth’ of what really happened.
I hope my family tells my story accurately. To themselves and to their families. Mostly because in telling my story accurately I will know that I was understood.
Your story matters. Your story teller matters.
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