For the love of life
Life is not always sweet, nor is it always bitter. It is both, as well as spicy, savory, bland, etc.
There's a lot you experience in life, some are not always pleasing to your pallet. You don't always have to be able to stomach what happens to you either.
In the past few years, there has been a shift in the presentation and composition of the stories told in movies and books. These appear colorful and full of life, but as it is digested it may become sour or bitter. Occasionally, it will end on a sweet moment warming your heart or as something you will savor and cherish.
In this trend of telling "realistic stories," those ones where dark events occur and gives you wretched gut check, we tend to find ourselves drawn to them more. Some of us crave to witness those experiences in a fictional setting felt by someone else, why is that? In my case, it's a cross of feelings I have felt myself and experiences I have seen others in my life go through. It allows us to relocate our emotional islands to be somewhere less isolated and alone.
Idling watching these aching characters navigate the rapids of life, we hold our breaths as the next life rocking obstacle approaches fast from down-river. We cannot help them. We can only watch. As we watch the frothing water of time and turbulent tide of life, their decisions and actions are the oars and help them to guide through these treacherous times. In every case, although the rapids someone is going through may look the same, everything they have experienced, felt, and witnessed up to this point has not been the same as your own.
Why do we love to see real life stories dramatized and exaggerated on the silver screen? Because it hands us a magnifying glass. This object does several things, it makes some of our stories seem small and easier to handle, it helps us shed light on the burning issue at hand, it can also give you a chance to look at it more closely, and all in the end it's a tool provided to help you solve the mystery and provide conclusive evidence.
I encourage you to go forth and enjoy those dark stories told on the bright television, dive into that streaming movie. Warm your heart under a blanket made of the story well-spun. I hope that you find piece to the puzzle that is a hard time in your life, and that in time it can help you go out and tell an eerily similar story to your own that could help a stranger in the midst of their own quiet chaos.
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