It‘s the real stories that matter, the mundane, the everyday struggle, the anger and insecurities, the small wins and setbacks, your vulnerable self and not some polished version of a life that is polished to fulfil the dreams of others you‘ll never know in vanity and greed

The internet has dramatically changed our ability to know things, but our ability to change things has remained the same, or possibly diminished as a) most of our free-time is now spread out in unsatisfying micro doses of scrolling throughout the day b) seeming has become more important than doing.

On the Internet, clapping for essential workers is

You must tell your own stories, and not the stories of others

Just imagine the sense of companionship we can develop within each other, if everybody would tell the real stories of a mundane and normal life

It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Alan Rickman

The storytellers are the protagonists, so they can bring their own vulnerability, authenticity and grit to the tales

Social media should be, and used to be, a tool to make real life easier, not replace it. We’re spending all this time indulging voyeurism and inventing people to be mad at and then looking up at the real world and asking who let it all go to shit.