What is Your Narrative This Year?

• Looking at the title you might wonder about this how to answer this question. You might think: “Do I even have one?”
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• All of us do have a story to tell if we have lived for any period of time on this planet.
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• Being connected with others makes our account “inter narrative” and more complex since one narrative affects the other person’s story. Just as we personally have a story to tell, together with our family our community and worldwide we also have one to communicate.
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• Narrative is the choice of which events to relate, in what order, and from whose perspective. In other words, it is the way in which a story is told — whether fiction or nonfiction.
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• A story is a set sequence of events, but the same story can yield many different narratives. The life of Jesus was rewritten from different points of view if we read the Gospels because each one was written by a different apostle; other people who lived at the same time of Jesus have a different narrative. Because of either their position or view of Jesus or their background their story became very different than those who wrote the Gospels, even though the “facts” of the Jesus biography remains the same!
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• This is because a narrative doesn’t just present the facts. It connects events and relates them to each other or to specific ideas, themes, or concepts — all based on who’s “telling” the story and who the audience is.
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• The ideal witness in a courtroom gives an unbiased account, but the author of a narrative has an ulterior agenda (whether consciously or subconsciously): to mold the story to fit an overarching set of aims or effects.
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• Here are nine of the most common types of how your story could be told:
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• As a Descriptive, Viewpoint, Historical, Personal, Quest, Linear, Nonlinear, Parallel or Episodic narrative
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• (from https://nownovel.com/narrative-examples-strong-narration)
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• If you are a writer then you can glean good tips from this article. Today we will expound a bit more on “World Narrative”. Which means: it refers to a large-scale story or overarching interpretation that attempts to explain or connect major events, trends, and experiences across the entire globe, essentially providing a comprehensive view of human history and society on a global scale; it's a way of understanding the world through a story-like framework. Your worldview narrative depends on which view you choose to take. Either the negative one (AKA Doom Sayers, Dooms dayers or Negativists) or the positive side (AKA optimists, daydreamers, utopians, visionaries or reformers).