{"id":1017,"date":"2014-12-07T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickiong.com\/wp\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2021-04-06T03:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T03:06:54","slug":"dont-write-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickiong.com\/wp\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/dont-write-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t Write A Story.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, as I was dwelling on something in my personal life, my Mom told me \u201cdon\u2019t write a story.\u201d She\u2019d heard the saying from someone else and shared it with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean exactly?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to read too much into what happens in life. It\u2019s easy to read into what people say. It\u2019s easy to assume. It\u2019s easy to over-analyze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By \u201cnot writing a story,\u201d you\u2019re living in a way where things simply are as they are. There are no hidden meanings and no underlying messages. Simply put:\u00a0it is what it is<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This idea of \u201cnot writing a story\u201d about every situation in my life like this was, well, earth shattering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially as women, we tend to write stories all the time; whether it\u2019s a situation in work, with friends and family, or with our significant others. We write stories about why something happened, why a situation went the way it went, why someone reacted the way they did or did what they did. We over analyze every situation to the fullest extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to hand it to men here: comparatively, men tend not to over-analyze a given situation. They take things as they come: simply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reality is:\u00a0without all the information, do we know our story is true?<\/strong>\u00a0Absolutely not.\u00a0It\u2019s almost as though we need to explain a situation to ourselves without actually knowing the reason why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And guess what? More often than not, the story in our heads is so much more outlandish than the\u00a0actual\u00a0<\/em>story that you wouldn\u2019t even believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will happen when we stop writing stories?<\/strong>\u00a0You\u2019ll find that taking things as they come causes less stress and\u00a0less anxiety<\/a>. After all, living more simply means taking things as they come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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