The Long Road

11/18/2003 Archived Entry: "Story Time"

Every group has one person who has the role of storyteller. Like shaman in old native tribes ...haha, no wait, that's a really stupid way of starting this. So anyways, there's always one person who goes around telling stories, about how his day went, all the stupid little things that he's done and what not. And he could be talking about the most inane things but this person is all about Delivery. He can make stupid things sound Fun and Interesting.

I am most certainly not one of these storyteller types. For one thing, I usually remember so very little about what happens over the course of a day that I actually have to try hard to tell of some event. There's also the fact that I'm not of the type that can tell about something silly and make it sound interesting; if I talk about something inane, I'll come off inane. Guaranteed. Conversations with me, I think, tend to be more in-the-moment and observational. I'm much less interested in divulging my past than I am in making fun of the goofy looking guy over there or noting how implausibly flawed someone's writing is.

It fascinates me when someone can sit in front of me and pretty much retell their whole life story without skipping a beat and without thinking for an instant that I have no interest in it. Some days, I wish I had that same kind of conviction in how interesting my life is and some days I wish these people realised how boring their lives truly are.

Replies: 3 comments

are you trying to discreetly tell someone that their stories are boring?

Posted by melpie @ 11/19/2003 09:28 AM EST

Correlation...people with simple lives, usually have simple minds, so they have simple stories to tell...they become more enamoured with what they are going to tell you...

Those with more complex lives, requiring more complex minds, realize they cannot possibly entertain simpler minds with their complexities...thus, they handle such situations with short replies...

Similar to introvert/extrovert paradox...

Posted by dAN @ 11/20/2003 04:40 PM EST

Mel: all I'm saying is in what I wrote, no subtext please =)

dAN: maybe its the reverse and simple minds lead to simple lives..?? After you said it this does seem a lot like that extrovert/introvert entry.

Posted by Rayne @ 11/20/2003 05:57 PM EST