How Our Stories Help Us to Connect with Others

 

“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.”—Brené Brown

 Each person has unique story and influenced by our culture, background, race, and gender. I think that technology and stories are related, because they shape us, and they reflect us as individuals and the role we play in our community.

In a digital age, I personally find interesting how we connect and communicate with people through their stories and technology, and here is the example of the social media. I must confess that I’m a huge Instagram fan, I love spending some time watching my friends’ reels, posts, and stories. Nowadays, there are some many social media platforms as TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat that help us to stay in touch with the people we care about.

We must be proud of our stories, sharing them help us to understand ourselves and bind us together with people from different cultures or backgrounds. Seattle is a great example of intercultural stories; it has been an awesome place to meet and connect with people from different countries and create a strong network of friends that had become family.

I definitely love to share my stories with the people I care about, coming here from another country helped me to connect with people that are in the same situation as me. I appreciate and cherish all my friends’ stories; but I’m especially proud of mine.

Please find a short clip here of my story and don’t forget to leave a comment.

-Stories are powerful, stories inspire us-

By Priscilla Flores

Wolske, M. (2020). Person-centered guide to demystifying technology: Working together to observe/ question/ design/ prototype/ and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings. Windsor & Downs Press.