If you made a spreadsheet of old family stories about previous generations do you think you could reach any conclusions or define a theme? And where do you fit in?
Most of ours are about getting lost (usually due to talking a lot) and all the repercussions (being late, hungry etc).
One involves someone quitting their job in a salty fashion to enlist in the army (wartime) and then being rejected and having to go back and ask for the job back.
My grandma was a very irreverent Catholic so we have a lot of those stories too, about her disobedience.
Taken together they paint a pretty accurate picture of the family: disorganised, chatty, somewhat chaotic, rebellious but conflicted about fitting in. There are darker stories too but if you only look at the ones everyone enjoys you still draw a similar conclusion.
I can’t explain why this was a penny dropping moment for me but it was.