this is your story...

"This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them is false, and it is all one story..."

"To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well...
It's unwise, though, to think you know how it's going to go, or how it's going to end. That's to be known only when it's over..."

-from Ursula K. Le Guin's "Gifts" and "The Left Hand of Darkness"