Stories are all we have.
Stories are all histories, beliefs, our imaginations, our dreams and the parables from which we pull meanings from to apply throughout life.
I am compelled to think that one day, perhaps my eventual master’s work, will revolve around the value of stories. For now, it makes sense I am attracted to media, because the profession revolves around finding, listening to and sharing stories.
Professor Meddegama of the International Buddhist Academy in Sri Lanka held our attention like a magician or entertaining grandfather as he carried us through thousands of years of Sri Lanka’s history with one vehicle, stories.
He said everything is about stories, and the value of storytelling, whether fiction or not, is it captures the essential values and cultural aspects of societies.
What was even more interesting was to learn that when he was a child, the stories of their history or religion were published in print media, which is how they learned them.
Today, these are conveyed through a new channel, television.
This is just a touch of localized media as a note to self.
Malinda Seneviratne, Sri Lankan poet and editor of The Nation newspaper, also said the stories we listen to as children are what wires our roots of meanings and understandings.
Fiction, mythical, altered clashes with factual, plausible and valid when any story is told. The beauty of this though is stories are elements which are fluid and malleable, yet the value of sharing these narratives is timeless as well as sustaining.
Stories are creative outlets connecting ancestors to future children. They are the network with which various histories can be compared or fused. Storytelling is a craft, an art, a gift, which must be nurtured so they can continue to be shared.
One way to do this is through writing.
Seneviratne said there is always something to write about. There are always stories to be told. What makes them timeless when written however is the passion of the writer.
The other dynamic of sharing stories today is recognizing the various outlets in which it is done.
I was once told to consider social media and blogs as the modern campfire, the central location of people coming together to share ideas, opinions, experience and history through their stories.
No matter how close we fuse with technology or what platform we access them, stories will never fade, not as long there are humans. If the entire population was one body, the pulse of its blood would be what we all share together-stories.
Stories are all histories, beliefs, our imaginations, our dreams and the parables from which we pull meanings from to apply throughout life.
I am compelled to think that one day, perhaps my eventual master’s work, will revolve around the value of stories. For now, it makes sense I am attracted to media, because the profession revolves around finding, listening to and sharing stories.
Professor Meddegama of the International Buddhist Academy in Sri Lanka held our attention like a magician or entertaining grandfather as he carried us through thousands of years of Sri Lanka’s history with one vehicle, stories.
He said everything is about stories, and the value of storytelling, whether fiction or not, is it captures the essential values and cultural aspects of societies.
What was even more interesting was to learn that when he was a child, the stories of their history or religion were published in print media, which is how they learned them.
Today, these are conveyed through a new channel, television.
This is just a touch of localized media as a note to self.
Malinda Seneviratne, Sri Lankan poet and editor of The Nation newspaper, also said the stories we listen to as children are what wires our roots of meanings and understandings.
Fiction, mythical, altered clashes with factual, plausible and valid when any story is told. The beauty of this though is stories are elements which are fluid and malleable, yet the value of sharing these narratives is timeless as well as sustaining.
Stories are creative outlets connecting ancestors to future children. They are the network with which various histories can be compared or fused. Storytelling is a craft, an art, a gift, which must be nurtured so they can continue to be shared.
One way to do this is through writing.
Seneviratne said there is always something to write about. There are always stories to be told. What makes them timeless when written however is the passion of the writer.
The other dynamic of sharing stories today is recognizing the various outlets in which it is done.
I was once told to consider social media and blogs as the modern campfire, the central location of people coming together to share ideas, opinions, experience and history through their stories.
No matter how close we fuse with technology or what platform we access them, stories will never fade, not as long there are humans. If the entire population was one body, the pulse of its blood would be what we all share together-stories.
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