There won't be much organization to this post as I've been under varying forms of sedation and sleep-deprivation for the past two nights. And suddenly here again is 1:30am.
Being heavily analytical and equally ADD is like releasing one of those floaty things you always see attached to keys on boats from the bottom of a lake, trying to hit a target up on the surface. But I'ma gonna give it a shot because, you know, that's what we do.
Going out is fun.
I enjoy it because when you’re out with your friends, with other people, it gives you the opportunity to create stories. Stories/memories, same thing, whatever. I think stories are what we live for. Some people tell stories, some people read them, others write them down. A few of us live them and then relay them to others. Stories are everything. They educate us. They entertain us. They help us remember and sometimes forget. They pass the time between living and dying. Without stories we wouldn't last very long.
I happen to enjoy stories very much. I enjoy hearing them as much as I do telling them. I consider a story for a story to be a fair trade. And you can tell a lot about a person by which story they tell, how they tell it, how they related to and understood what you said by which story they tell you in reciprocation.
I think the trick is to make sure, especially if you like telling stories, that you put aside the time to be a part of the experiences that lead to stories. I think of it like going on a trip. There are typically two types of people that come back from trips with photos (photos ruin stories, by the way); the people that take pictures of every landscape and monument, statue and sunset--everything that they see. And then there’s the people that take pictures only of themselves and their friends, rarely without any context within the photos themselves to illustrate that they ever even went on a trip! Therefore, to be a successful story-teller, you must be a person that mixes the two traits by living the life you speak of, one of adventure and if you do, that story will not only be one worth being told, but one worth hearing.
Originally written 1/14/11 1:30am.
Being heavily analytical and equally ADD is like releasing one of those floaty things you always see attached to keys on boats from the bottom of a lake, trying to hit a target up on the surface. But I'ma gonna give it a shot because, you know, that's what we do.
Going out is fun.
I enjoy it because when you’re out with your friends, with other people, it gives you the opportunity to create stories. Stories/memories, same thing, whatever. I think stories are what we live for. Some people tell stories, some people read them, others write them down. A few of us live them and then relay them to others. Stories are everything. They educate us. They entertain us. They help us remember and sometimes forget. They pass the time between living and dying. Without stories we wouldn't last very long.
I happen to enjoy stories very much. I enjoy hearing them as much as I do telling them. I consider a story for a story to be a fair trade. And you can tell a lot about a person by which story they tell, how they tell it, how they related to and understood what you said by which story they tell you in reciprocation.
I think the trick is to make sure, especially if you like telling stories, that you put aside the time to be a part of the experiences that lead to stories. I think of it like going on a trip. There are typically two types of people that come back from trips with photos (photos ruin stories, by the way); the people that take pictures of every landscape and monument, statue and sunset--everything that they see. And then there’s the people that take pictures only of themselves and their friends, rarely without any context within the photos themselves to illustrate that they ever even went on a trip! Therefore, to be a successful story-teller, you must be a person that mixes the two traits by living the life you speak of, one of adventure and if you do, that story will not only be one worth being told, but one worth hearing.
Originally written 1/14/11 1:30am.
