"We tell ourselves stories in order to live" Joan Didion

There's a story and explanation behind everything; every blunder, every achievement, every misfortune. I personally feel as if nowadays people need and rely on a "story" or a heartstring puller in order to understand what empathy is. We're constantly looking for proof and only want to believe what we see. Stories are always more fun, always more realistic. It comes to a point that it doesn't even have to be factual in order for us to believe it - as long as we can relate to it, we accept it. Maybe this is why some people dislike facts straight out of textbooks. They don't like the raw information, unless it's fabricated in a heart wrenching story tied with a neat bow that concludes, "and this is the moral of the story".

Tiffany Yoon