“Life stories” are very important to me, as I do believe life is a story and that we go through life telling stories. Although I may be young I still do believe that even at age 19 I have a story and more than that I have many stories. Strawson disagrees with the idea of structuring our life through stories, as it generalizes our lives. Strawson goes on to talk about the idea of Narratives and the idea of shaping our stories along the narrative idea; he states “naturally disposed to experience or conceive of one’s life, one’s existence in time, oneself, in a narrative way, as having the form of a story or perhaps a collection of stories, and – in some manner – to live in and through this conception”. This stuck out to me right in the beginning of the article because Strawson does make a good point as everything around us is glammed up and it almost forces us to vamp up our own life stories, rather than telling it how it is. This reminds me of Becker’s article when she talks about remembering and telling the best parts of our stories, making these glorified parts of our stories more memorable. I do not feel as though this is a bad thing, it is simply acknowledging the good things within our lives. Overall, I believe narratives and story telling is a good thing, it is simply how we remember and tell about our lives as well as share past experiences.