What's the new cool with stories?
There's something about rich content that needs to be said. Something about every backspace that tailored the frame and everything just so perfectly into it. Something about every hour extended after a 3am midnight, fingers being told whether or not and if so then where of that last thought to be put. [which lets agree, is never the last]
It could just be a meme or it could be be an arrangement of words rhymed together in a couple of lines; it could be a blog post for a budding company trying to garner an audience for its new found idea. It could all sound good and yet devoid of something you'd discover probably in the next shower you take. There always are layers bedded with precision; The dig is the best. It's when you unearth it and find its roots, the motivation that cultivated into the masterpiece. Midway, there'll be rotten leaves, stones, and stories; read them. Men and women lived lives that beamed extraordinary to the world; read how ordinarily they did so.
On the contrary, the volume needs to tune up with stories that are never written, neither told. Not every man gets to tell the world the way his mother cooked and how much did his father sweat after a day of work. We all live such stories. It’s ordinary. We do believe so. And yes, we like reading stories bearing semblance to ours. It makes us feel explored and expressed to others, it pings of a connection we were skeptical of. There's a gratification to it. There's content in the curve of your eyelids, the moisture in your palms, the wrinkles in a smile and every glance you sneaked out the window during a boring lecture. We like it when someone writes it down. Or makes a meme on it. We share it. We get to know that it is known.
The simpler stories are warmer and more comfortable to rinse in. The longing is sweet. Perhaps, it'd be a rich life if we read ours. Of all the things that already are, we cannot let this world be devoid of this content. It'll turn to a ruthless tribe unaware of compassion. Let’s keep creating. Let's keep reading.
Your HR Person | Learning & Development Specialist | Culture and Talent Catalyst | Lifelong Learner | Author | Ex-Infosys
3 年Very well written, Danish! ??