The Art of Storytelling

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”

-Maya Angelou

Storytelling is an Art. It is the ability to convince people to not just share your belief, but also be willing to pick up arms and fight for your belief.

Being a good storyteller requires precision and attention to detail, it is the ability to drag people into your worldview and have them convinced that this story is not just a story but it is the truth. A good story would make men pick up arms and fight for what they believe to be true, I mean we’ve seen it happen in revolutions for instance the case of the Nazis who were so convinced that killing six million jews was right. Even in Christianity, the crusades that raided half of Europe were all because of a good story.

Moving forward from history, we all watched the series YOU. A powerful series that explored the mind of an obsessive psychopath. But now the amazing part about this series is that unlike the usual picture of psychopaths painted out there, this particular series gave us the story from his point of view; we got into his head and saw reasons why he did the things he did, and we understood him, connected with him, it would not even be a stretch to say some of us even fell in love with him. (PS. I’m seriously waiting for the new season LOL).

And just this evening, I finished Lupin; the exquisite French series that explores, love, revenge, blackness, and most importantly morals. Starring a strong black male lead with race, morals, and society against him. What that series would not tell us is that however, ASSANE was indeed a thief, well in their defense, they did tell, but we just refused to believe because they let him tell us his story.

The essence of this piece is to highlight the importance of storytelling and how it is a tool that we all should leverage. Our 20s are years filled with uncertainties, exploration. They are years where we get to try stuff and fail at them, quit, and start all over ( i at some point learned taekwondo, leemao! but that’s a story for another day).

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that there’s a beauty in this life riddled with uncertainties. And the beauty is that this is what makes up our stories. So go out there and live that life riddled with uncertainty, learn that sport, take those risks, but most importantly, tell that story that would convince and inspire people to believe you and believe in you ( read that again)

Till the next publication,

Think happy thoughts.