What you get is a story.

I've just come from watching the 3rd Stieg Larsson film, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". I really love this series. It's not as clean as the typical Hollywood drama, one that ends with everyone winning a clear emotional victory of some kind. The question that is on my mind is about the main Heroine. How can she move on after so much shit. Can she love again? Will she ever really trust? True, she's gained some justice and we are thrilled, but after the villains are slain and the injustices addressed, when the trials are over and she's left to herself as she is, then a new story is eminent. The story really doesn't end, it just continues on into the next moment.

I don't know one person who does not have a story to tell. In each of our lives there are several narratives that have defined how we live and how we respond as well as what our dreams and goals. Everyone has a story to tell. And I'd add to this that there are more stories than can be counted within each one of us. I'm not the only person who has wanted to tell his story, but in my case I'm not sure if I want to relive it. Sure I will admit, I'd love to have myself published, to be read and appreciated for having an experience to share with the world. There is a fantasy, and I'm not the only one who shares in it, of becoming famous for our life's drama. I wonder if I'd really feel better having achieved such a goal? I'm not sure I can truly answer that question.

I'm thinking of all the people that I pass each day on the street; what do we really know of the ordinary man or woman? Not much considering all the taboos in our society against disclosure. What we don't wear on our sleeves ends up in the box office to be sure. The theater is an acceptable venue to tell any story. Wouldn't you agree? Its safe, we can leave, we are in the dark, we can sink into the characters, feel there emotions-love pain fear etc. We can live a sort of secondary life outside our ordinary experience. I love the movies for this reason. In fact story telling is all we do. Can you think of anything you have learned that doesn't translate into someone telling someone else a story? Education is story, politics is story, memory is story, any time we talk it's story. Think about art, does it not tell a story? The evening news, ordinary gossip, ask anyone how they are doing today and what you get is a story. Ultimately my point is a story. Your opinion is also a story. Human beings are story telling, story consuming creatures, so I ask, where do most of the stories come from in our daily lives?

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The brain was made to automatically seek out patterns in whatever our senses identify. It's true, so story is also 'pattern'. And you'll create story in whatever you see in your world.