I have never fully understood stories. I knew that they were there, and that some people felt touched by them, but I didn’t really understand stories.
I heard a sermon once by a guy who shared some stories about his local neighbourhood, they weren’t amazing awesome hyped stories, instead they were good stories. He and his family live amoung a rough neighbourhood and they live amoung the people that they are trying to help and support. I can’t remember exactly what his stories were about, but I do remember the concept of good stories.
Lately I’ve been listening and exploring story telling. I’m not sure what has triggered my interest in stories, whether it is in part, this project of daily blogging which requires me to be open and listen closely throughout the day, or just getting more mature (whatever that means). Two days ago I blogged about episode 99 of the Rob Cast, a story that was quite moving, I recently watched a movie on Netflix called “The Eichmann Show”, if you haven’t seen it, go watch it, but be prepared to be shocked if it you don’t know the story. Following this, I gave the film “A Girl Like Her”, a documentary style film about the bullying of a young girl and the story telling of both sides of the story.
These stories have been having an impact on me. I’m loving the beauty of the telling a story with a camera, and makes me want to pursue the path of becoming a film maker. I need a project around this.