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From the perspective of The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd
According to an article found in Scientific American, "[Stories] are simulated experiments in people-physics, freeing us from the limits of our own direct experience" (Bhalla par. 3).
Bhalla, Jag. “It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories.” Scientific American Blog Network, Springer Nature, 8 May 2013, blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/it-is-in-our-nature-to-need-stories/.
Stories allow us feel things like love, heartache, hate, acceptance without having to take on the emotional toll that would normally accompany those feelings if they were occurring organically.
"In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional. I was the girl abandoned by her mother. I was the girl who kneeled on grits. What a special case I was" (Kidd 278).
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. Tinder Press, 2015.
Stories are an integral piece in self-discovery, but they can also be the very thing to get in the way of it. So when we are able to accept our truth and forgive ourselves for making mistakes, it will ultimately heal us.
USA, Girl Scouts of the, director. Storytellers: Sue Monk Kidd. YouTube, YouTube, 30 May 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhog09RsB94.