Your Side Of The Story

Ever wonder why two people can experience the same event yet walk away with completely different stories? Drawing from Aesop's timeless fable "The Man and the Lion," this episode explores the powerful truth that perspective shapes what we perceive as reality.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Let it Be Easy with Susie Moore.
Okay, one more fantastic fablefor you today, my friends.
I really love this one.
I think you will too.

(00:20):
It's called the man and theLion.
Ooh Aesop, you knew what youwere doing.
A man and a lion traveledtogether through the forest.
They soon began to boast oftheir respective superiority to
each other in strength andprowess.
As they were disputing, theypassed a statue carved in stone

(00:44):
which represented a lionstrangled by a man.
The traveler pointed to it andsaid See there how strong we are
and how we prevail even overthe king of beasts.
The lion replied that statue ismade by one of you men.
The lion replied that statue ismade by one of you men.

(01:06):
If we lions knew how to erectstatues, you would see the man
placed under the paw of a lion.
One story is good until anotheris told.
You know what?
I really started internalizingthis truth maybe a decade or so

(01:29):
ago.
So, for example, if agirlfriend would come to me
complaining about something,maybe a boyfriend or a boss, I
would always, of course, sidewith my friend and, you know,
jump on the bandwagon.
But increasingly now, ingenerosity to myself and to
others, I love to say you knowhow could we see this situation
differently?
I wonder what your boss thinksabout that.
I wonder what your partnerthinks about that.

(01:50):
You know, if a friend comes tome complaining about her husband
, for whatever reason, you knowthey seem they're being annoying
I go look, is your husbandstressed out?
You know it's not to defendanother person's position, but
it's trying to see the wholepicture, kind of like the lion
says well, you know, if we madethe statues, you'd be beneath us

(02:13):
.
Who's writing the story, orwho's telling the story or who's
reliving an experience, is theperson in the moment who seems
to control the power.
It's one person's version andit doesn't mean it's the truth,
the objective truth.
It just means that the stone isbeing carved by the person with
the microphone.

(02:34):
Okay, we see this everywhereall the time.
If you spoke to me versus mysister, you'd think, gosh, we
have very different childhoods.
If you spoke to me or myex-husband, you'll probably find
very different versions of ourmarriage.
If you spoke to me and I don'tknow someone in my life where we
had a dispute my story wouldsound really good.

(02:54):
And I'm pretty sure their storywould sound really good,
because every story has almostlike this form of counter story.
If you listen to anotherperson's version, it's like the
lion's point.
If we made statues it'd be theother way around.
It's just this truth, thatperception shapes our reality

(03:16):
and we don't have to take oneside of any story as gospel.
Even if there's a statue, evenif there's a headline, even if
there's a viral post, it doesn'tmean that that is final or the
truth.
There's another side, anotherstoryteller, another truth
waiting to be told.
To me this is also a mark ofmaturity in a person where they

(03:42):
can hold two truths.
They can hold two stories.
They can look at the situationby zooming out a little bit and
not getting so immersed in oneversion of events.
And I know it almost seemscounterintuitive here.
But just say you came to metoday and you're like oh, this
person's really annoying me orbothering me, and I said to you

(04:03):
hmm, wonder what they might begoing through, or tell me some
good points about this person,or wonder how they're viewing
this current situation.
That is not only helpful to theuniverse, because it's a
friendly way of looking at theworld and all of our fellow
human beings, but it can be verysoothing to the person who's
struggling, because maybe theyneed that perspective shift too.

(04:26):
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