I think I'm in a philosophical state of mind today, so I'll talk about why stories are so important to life.
Either expressed in a movie, a TV show, or a book, and story can make you understand more about yourself. I know, big turn, but let me explain. When you experience a story in one of those, or other, methods, you are exposing yourself to see the world in someone else's eyes. In this life time, we only get to be ourselves, only get to wake up, to feel, to eat, to do whatever we ourselves do. But through a story of someone else's life, you can go into their point of view, and that's almost like defying the universe because it only gave you this one life to experience, but you can actually experience many from just hearing a story. As well, when you hear a story, you'll get a initial feeling, and that feeling is usually from the point of view of which you are getting the story from, so like a poor Afghan kid, sad, Snow White singing to her birds, happy. This way, you get to learn more about yourself because you get to see what your actual responses are to many different situations.
So how do you love stories? Simple, if you like to understand others, to create your own worlds with characters that you can see through, if you like to experience life in someone else's shoes, e.i. go to war, do drugs, shoot a gun, all the thrill rides without actually having to be in danger, well, then, you love stories already.
Stories are the real innovation of life, it's just whether or not you're ready to share yours. But when you are, the whole world's listening.
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Just getting into the inspirational set of mind for Make a video for Anti-homophobia.