“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”
-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me
We are humans, and humans are storytelling animals, biologically speaking. Even when you sleep we see stories like dreams. But tragedy is like nightmares, you can forget it every minute when you are busy enough that you have no time to remember it, and it fades away. You can remember it again when there is a manifestation of that thing. Remembering is part of what makes us human. Memories are the signs that people accumulate experiences that are worth sharing, even if they experience tragedy like heartbreak, with people that they trust and want to hear about.
Stories are a bridge to communication until that communication builds relationships between the person who tells the story and their listeners.
Mark Tacastacas 
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