The Story not Told: Importance in Storytelling

                I once met a lady who recollected the time during the reign of Idi Amin when she had to walk four days and four nights from Uganda to Kenya to sell what she had planted in order to make enough money to survive. She walked this distance with her crop on her back. And she had to do this because Idi Amin made it impossible for her to sell what she had, I believe it was beans and maize, in Uganda. Isn’t that interesting? Doesn’t it give you a small glimpse into the story of her life? Doesn’t it make you understand a little bit more what it was like to live under the rule of Amin?

                Isn’t that interesting?

                If I never told you that story you may never have heard it. And it doesn’t matter if it’s me telling the story or someone else, the only thing that matters is that it was told. You see, we can learn a lot from a story. A story can give us an insight into the life of someone who is suffering, who is rejoicing, who is failing, or who is succeeding. We can learn what not to do. We can learn what to do. And we can learn how to do it. A story itself is so important. And everybody has one. Whether you are walking for miles to sell your crop or whether you are busking on the street corner or whether you are trekking the globe, it doesn’t matter. We can learn something from all of it. Stories can inspire us, scare us, make us cry, make us laugh. They can change us, shape us, make us grow as individuals. They are important. To gain knowledge into other things that are happening or things that have happened or things that have yet to happen shapes us. It makes us grow as individuals. Knowledge makes us grow and one of the ways that we obtain knowledge is through storytelling. You can’t know about the protests that are happening around the world without stories from them. And you can’t help someone without first knowing the story (even if that’s just knowing that they need help). Stories are important.

                So let your be told. Whether that is you telling it or letting someone tell it for you. That is what this blog is for. To tell stories. Some of them may be deep and meaningful and some of them may be just fun stories. They won’t all fall under the same genre. All will be true, unless I state otherwise, but they will come in a variety of shapes and sizes. And some postings may just be like this. Just some thoughts on a certain topic. Who knows? This is an experiment, let’s see what happens.