Stories That We Tell
... and what that means about us. In the last few months I have had a lot of stories show up on my Social Media newsfeed. And these stories all tell variations of the same story. In that story the narrator is either an angry old solitary man, widowed and retired and/or a biker. If retired a mechanic or some other type of person who works with their hands. Or someone who is really hurt and isolated who is sometimes thinking of extreme solutions who is a younger person in the finance or tech side of the world. In the narration there is usually some sort of talk about how the world is really loud with a lot of shouting going on in the media etc. And something then happens where the narrator has to interact with someone who is their complete opposite in everything political etc. And it becomes a heart warming story of people who disagree helping each other to survive in this loud and cold world. And, no matter whether the narrator is the older or younger person, and it is usually the ...