Trust me.
The late Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembene once said that
-We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.
Although the popular proverb tells us that a picture is worth more than a thousand words,
the power of a good story lies in its ability to conjure a thousand pictures.
We have all the tools to tell our stories, the real stories, all of them.
(Not the photoshopped versions we post on facebook and instagram).
But there is something off. I suspect it is the balance.
There's too much happiness in social media, they say.
Too much optimism, excessive pride.
Faux love. Phony affection.
Is it not strange that we struggle with the deficit of all those things,
offline?
Must we squeeze all these warm sentiments into a few lines on a screen,
rather than living them out in the open?
Is there no place for these stories in our everyday life?
It is time we start finding our place in this world.
A dream without resources is a hallucination,
but words, phrases, context can make any dream come true.
- True?
I'm sorry.
Words can make anything happen.
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