## Appreciating life > As you start to see importance and meaning in each day, you suddenly understand your importance to this world. You start to see how the meaningful moments that we experience every day contribute to the lives of others and to the world. You start to sense the critical nature of your very existence. There are no more throwaway days. Every day can change the world in some small way. In fact, every day has been changing the world for as long as you’ve been alive. You just haven’t noticed yet. - Helps us realize how eventful our lives truly are, downplaying any insecurities or the questioning of our bland existence - Reflecting on our days like this helps to identify the abundance of stories in our lives - When we fully immerse ourselves in a moment, we can recall previous experiences with similar conditions - Days don't just suddenly breeze past ## Healing pain > If I can recommend storytelling to you for any reason at all, it would be that storytelling helps you realize that the biggest, scariest, most painful or regretful things in your head get small and surmountable when you share them with two, or three, or twenty, or three thousand people. ## Lasting beyond our death > The other reason I can recommend storytelling, and learning about it with the book you’re holding, is that we’re all disappearing — you, me, everyone we know and love. A little heavy for a foreword maybe, but when you tell stories, you do yourself a kind favor by taking a moment to write your name in the wet cement of life before you head to whatever is next … It’s a little like leaving a note in the logbook on the trail that others will be hiking after you, a note that might give the next hiker a clue - Subjective immortality