Mystory - The benefits of telling your story

I think one of the values of telling your stories is that it helps you to remember things that you might have forgotten about and perhaps never appreciated, at the time but it comes back to you - oh yes that was interesting, or its had an effect on my life that I hadn't realised I remember when my father had died, I remembered things at the time that I would dismiss oh thats what he says, you know the kind of thing but I can still now say, yes, he always used to say, Keep an open mind So I think theres a value in kind of; it enriches the whole memory it enriches your whole life, as they say, you can have the experience, but miss the meaning it adds meaning to your experience, it deepens the experience by reflecting on it Well it widens their horizons hopefully; lifes not always as it is at the moment and to appreciate what they've come from too and what they have today, is built on what went before its a whole enriching experience, I think more than you can learn about other people, other countries, other civilisations Well as a History teacher, it would be a very valuable resource teaching them about the Japanese invasion of Burma here's a personal story from someone who experienced it