Telling Myself a Different Story: A Memoir Counterfactual
Hey! I’m back once again with another post, you guys bored of me yet? Anyways, for today's blog post we had to listen to a Hidden Brain episode that will help with our narrative project we are working on. The episode was about a woman who loved to ski with her friends and husband. They didn’t just ski on regular mountains with a ski lift, they went out and hiked up their own mountains where there was no safety patrol or anyone really, just themselves. The Women is telling a story about how her husband died in an avalanche, and how her thoughts about the accident haunt her. The woman thinks about what could have happened if they were to do something differently that day, or how her husband is not actually dead… She's Counterfactual Thinking which is, a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened. For my memoir I will be writing about the time me and some friends got caught by the cops before even getting to this abandoned place we were going to explore… Narrative project If I were to know this cop pulling us over was going to save our asses, I wouldn't have been so worried in the moment. See now its funny...Because if that cop didn't pull us over, we could have been in big trouble... Which is the opposite of what you would think, right? If she let us keep walking down that old vacant road, we could have been taken to the local police station for all I know. Like what if she just drove by with out a care for what we were doing... That cop honestly saved us... She was at the right place, at the right time. I'm very thankful for that. Exploring abandoned places can be fun, but you have to be willing to face risk. To this day I think of the "what if's..." The things that could have happened that day if something else were to happen, or if things were to go about differently... The "What If's..."
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Catalina
2/26/2020 06:13:07 pm
I wish you were able to explore without being stopped but being stopped was possibly your sign that it wasn’t the best idea!
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Sabatino
3/2/2020 01:42:34 pm
CIF.
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