Narrative and Authenticity

  As most of the discussions, in which many participants are Doctors or Professors who speak their own "language", this one, for me, had little or no consensus.
 The talk went mostly about the authenticity and how can one achieve or measure it. The points were that narrators telling their stories often lie to make their story more attractive or suitable for the audience. Others called it adaptation to the situation, your surroundings in your present because you cannot fully relate to the experiences you had in the past, just because it is the past, and now the situation is different. One very interesting point stated that in religion, or how it was said, culture, repetition is a key element, thus repeating your story from time to time changes your feel of it, changes its narrative, because you yourself have changed. And that is not lying.
 Changing of one and not being able to sum up your own narrative, as see your whole authentic self, would be, kind of, impossible, because for that you will have to die and look back on your own life, were the only ideas that came to some conclusion.
 I liked the idea that said - being authentic, does not mean being different form others. All began with the discussion of notion of culture that actually shaped us and gave us words to express our narrative in the first place, thus, already, giving us all the same base to start with, then went to the idea that we often chose the same paths, and then again many end up with their own thoughts, ideas and feelings, all of it excludes lying, and turns it into referring to someones' experiences as our own. But is it a lie if people actually had same, or very similar experience?
 There were many interesting ideas in this discussion, and to many of them I can relate. In fact, all of those I can relate to I have already described earlier. I guess you remember only something similar to your own thoughts. I do believe most of the people in this world are authentic and the stories they tell too. Unfortunately all of them tend to catch a noticeable amount of foreign influence, but some just are better of putting them through as their own (with no intention whatsoever), though we all are in danger of changing our stories according to the audience. When speaking about stories changing from time to time, I think, it is a normal process of growing, rethinking and reacting to the present situation, and does not damage your authenticity in any way.

P.S.
I have to say, I am writing this just after hearing this discussion, and this is a hell of a job remembering everything, but, yeah... here we go. Thanks for reading this far,
Cheers,
Ed.