This was a very interesting paper for me, and really caught my attention. My whole life i have always thought of memories as stories and almost always remember things to be able to retell them. All new memories in my head, along with old ones, are stored like a little short story in my head. There is a start to the story, and end to the story, and many important details in between. Storytelling, in my opinion, is one of the best ways that you can open up to someone and become closer. By creating a narrative of past experiences, people are able to better understand and follow along. Strawson seems like he does not like sharing about his past. He mentions many times that he does not remember things in order to retell them as stories, only as a memory in his head. There is no start or finish, no details n between, it is just what happened, lodged into his brain. This seems to me as a mindset that he does not like to share about his past. I believe that however you want to remember experiences is not wrong, it just depends on whether or not you like to share life stories. I think of myself as a singular self, I do not relate to the many selves idea that he has. Everything in my mind is a life story that i myself lived through. No one else can tell that memory as well as i can and no one can recall the moment like my brain can.
I think this message is overall very nice. I can see both sides to this. It is always fun to tell a story. I agree how much stories create meaning and that it seems as though Strawson is not open a lot to talk about his “story”. Overall, I really liked your perspective!
I don’t think Strawson doesn’t want to share his past, he just doesn’t commit a lot of it to memory. Is it because he doesn’t want to share? Maybe, but I don’t think he even implies that much. I think he is trying to illustrate that people are different and memories and stories vary from person to person.