Humans crave story. We seek it out in our sports matches, in our presidential elections, and in our love lives.
If you want to move the world all it takes is a good story. Just look around you, you are surrounded by them. This is because stories are not bound to just books and movies. I think of paintings as stories. Each stroke in a sketch as part of a larger whole. The notes cascading throughout a melody as a journey. The products that we buy and the companies we purchase them from all emphasize their stories now. We use
What I experience when I read a book or watch a film is different than another person, even if they happen to be right next to me at the time. Each of us brings who we are to a story, interacting with it based on our beliefs and worldviews to create an experience unique to each of us. One of the largest fights I ever had with one of my besties was over a movie. He loved it, I kind of hated it. We had both seen the same film but we came away from it with very different (and very strong) opinions about it. We talked for hours about the plot and about the characters. Neither of us
If you want to move the world all it takes is a good story.
This ability to take on multiple meanings and mediums is one of the things I love the most about stories. Paintings. Songs. Books. Movies. Stories can be anything and can have multiple meanings far outside the original intent of the creator. Stories are much like dreams, ephemeral, transient things, that transform and move even as they are being put onto the page. This is why I am a