Other people will tell your story their way. Just make sure you still know the original version by heart.

Whatever happened to you gets retold by people who were not there, and each retelling shaves off a detail or adds one. You cannot govern that, and trying usually makes the noise louder. What you can hold onto is the accurate version, the one with the parts that never made it into anyone’s summary. Losing that is the only real loss.

Write down what actually happened once, for nobody. Include the parts that make the story less tidy. Keep it somewhere you can find it, because in a year the retellings will be louder than your memory.