The Story You Keep Telling Is the One You Need to Write

You know that story you've told three times this month?

The one about the meeting that went sideways. Or the conversation with your kid that changed how you see parenting. Or that moment at work when everything clicked.

It recently happened to me with my daughter. She told me what she had learned at school and the art project she was doing for Martin Jr., and how it turned out to be that she was talking about Martin Luther King Jr.

Or how now, I can't stop thinking about the armed robbery that happened in my city two days ago.

I keep thinking it because they are interesting to me and I think there is something to tell inside them.

Do you have a story like that?

Your brain is trying to process something. That story holds a lesson you haven't fully unpacked yet. It's working on you, which is why it keeps coming up in conversation.

Write it down.

Not to publish. Not to share. Just to see what it's really about.

When you write a story you keep telling, something shifts. The details sharpen. The meaning becomes clearer. You see patterns you missed when you were just talking through it.

Your repeated stories are asking for attention. Give them 5 minutes today.

Open a blank document. Write the story you told twice this week. See what shows up.

What story keeps coming back for you?