Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.