Our desire to tell stories about the events we witness is one of the strongest habits of the human mind. Rather than just look at and deal with the facts as they are, our tendency is to create complex narratives around the situations that we perceive. Like the man who was shot by the arrow, we often do so to our own detriment. In other words, instead of focusing on the facts and relieving our suffering (removing the arrow), we can get bogged down in the story of the event instead.
