The story is a natural package for organising many different kinds of information. Storytelling appears to be a fundamental way of expressing ourselves and our world to others.*
Dan McAdams

Perhaps there are things in our lives that
we’d prefer not to be there, but
these selfsame things may be just what
we need in order to to bring richness to others and
meaning to ourselves when
we weave them into our story.

*Dan McAdam’s The Stories We Live By.