Life at warp speed

Everyone has a story, what’s yours?

Everything and everyone in this world has a story. From the day we are born, we learn about life through stories, we learn about values, about what is good and what is wrong, everything that we say or do becomes eventually a story.

As we go through life we reject and get rejected, we hate, we love , we judge, we are indifferent, we don’t care, some just tag along like zombies. Everyone has a story, and every story has context and is unique in it’s own way. Life is merely composed out of stories that collide because of our interaction.

We all heard about the expression “What is this guy’s story”? In this digitalised world we don’t stop and listen to stories anymore, we either don’t have time or we don’t care anymore, all that matters is our reputation now, and slowly our stories become lost in this sea of superficiality. We don’t talk to one another like we used to, we are glued to screens and technology, we don’t let our stories collide anymore, we just go through life at warp speed.

The globalisation of storytelling.

Nowadays we need to standardise our stories, we use different mediums like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, mediums that constrain our creativity. We upload photos, we like, we share stuff, we tweet and retweet, but what’s the story behind all these.

Who looks at your wall posts history anyway, people are on a rush all the time, they don’t care. How can I tell my story, if 10 seconds from now 1000 other stories flooded my news feed. Like is just a ‘like’ it doesn’t say anything about you, and comments , very few times the comments really create meaningful interaction.

More and more people are exposed to this social pressure of not being able to rise to the standard of others, to live the life their Facebook friends are living, people are afraid of mistakes, of failure. Everyone gets frustrated, that their friends are successful and doing something, but they don’t realise that they should live their lives by their own standard, and raise their buts of that couch. Most of the times people forget that the social life projected on these mediums doesn’t reflect the real story behind the photos, the likes and retweets.

What if?

But what if we could start telling stories again, listening to one another, maybe we could avoid conflicts and start living like human beings. And how do we do that? How do we tell our story? By being honest and straight forward, by putting ourselves out there, not the image but the real us with all our fears and mistakes, maybe this way people would understand our actions and motivations.

Communication is the key to being human again, people need to interact with one another, to build things together, to tell their stories, to expose their true identity, to break out of the bonds of the digital world. So, what’s your story?