We need to make time for our own stories

Stories are important, right?

Yes, they are; we, as humans, crave/need them for meaning and context.

A while back, you might have heard a story now and again around the campfire… odds are that it was a good story, and that you remembered it, and re-told it to keep it alive.

Today, countless stories come in over the transom every second… new brands, e-mails, RSS, TV, random people on the street.

We so desperately want to hear them, at least the good ones, craving that meaning and context again, so we try to process it all.

But we cannot. Even if we read for 24 hours straight, we would catch about .0000001% of the day’s dump (I heard yesterday that 150,000 blogs are created each day).

So, of course, it’s absurd to even try.

By all means, we should be on the lookout for good storytellers, but we should limit your intake and make time - lots of time - to create our own stories, with friends, family, co-workers…