So the other day, my roommate introduced me to a Tim Burton film I didn't know existed. I know, shocker. Anyways, I watched it that night and it was AMAZING, as to be expected. The movie is called Big Fish and it's probably one of my favorite Tim Burton films.
The basis of the movie was story telling and the effect it has on other people. I'll let you google the film yourself, because this isn't a review of the movie. This quote at the end of the film is the one that really got me thinking: "A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal."
I grew up in a family of story tellers. I can tell you about the time my daddy fell off a barn roof, about the time my daddy punched my mama in his sleep because he was dreaming about snakes: i can tell you about the time my mama's sisters locked her in a closet and wouldn't let her come out because she's claustrophobic, or about how my mama would call her mama crying because she didn't think she was smart enough for college and wanted to come home. I can tell you about Christmas' at my great grandmother's and every wild night that ever happened in the town where I grew up, whether I was there for it or not. All my friends are story tellers. I know a ton of stories that happened last year in my dorm, when I didn't even attend here last year.
Story telling is the way that people share things with each other. It's one of our oldest and best forms of communication. It's about entertainment, it's about connection. It will forever be ingrained in everything we do. Books and movies; they're all to weave us tales.
I don't know about you, but when I'm gone, I still want people to tell stories of the things I've done, whether they be about the dumb shit or the important things. And while I'm here, I don't want to be a writer or an author: I want to be known as a story teller.
To All the Big Fish Out There,
Moriah Jane
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