Is it Our Story to Tell?
It’s often said there are only seven stories in the world - or perhaps twelve, or twenty - or maybe just one, depending on which theorist you ask. The number doesn’t matter. What matters is the implication: that all human stories share a spine. A common pulse. There are just a few essential human patterns retold in infinite variations; love found and lost, the journey home, the stranger at the gate, the fall and the redemption.
It’s a powerful thought because, if that’s true, and we are all retelling the same great story of longing, survival, and connection, then there really is a common human experience. We are, in essence, all the same. It’s comforting.
