Why do we need storytellers – and them telling us about beasts, fairies, monsters, and fairy godmothers?
Because we need people who breathe life to words and songs. Because there is nothing less tragic than to see books sitting idly in shelves waiting for the world to disintegrate before them as their pages are left unopened, unloved, unwanted. Because storytellers are windows of the soul.
We cannot live without storytellers because they are more than just event reporters: they are dream catchers, future shapers, magical realists, creative souls, unrelenting warriors. They are the voices of the past, the present and the future living in a village of endless tales, poems and legends of unrequited love, hanging endings, sad goodbyes, happy childhood. Storytellers are living proofs that there is hope in a world marred by killings, countries bullying other countries, poverty and oppression, corruption and some greedy people who hide behind the name “politicians”.
I am of the belief that each person is a storyteller. It is wrong to say that you are not. Because every step taken, every word uttered and every mistake committed is a story in itself. You are a storyteller. Your life is a story of its own. Go out and share that story (or tell the story your grandmother used to tell you as an innocent child scared of the beasts and the monsters). Nobody is too tired to listen to one.
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T30WC or The 30-minute Writing Challenge is a writing exercise born out of this blogger’s need to maintain a habit of writing. Subjects of each writing challenge is just about anything but should ONLY be written within 30 minutes.
