Indomitable
Once again I remind myself how fortunate I am that I am living my dream.
Once again I remind myself that my job is not something I can quantify. My work relies on stories. Stories that I can pass on. Stories that empower. Stories that give hope.
How poetic that I came from a long line of storytellers, the only difference is the stories I tell are not made up but are of real people. People respond to stories. It is were dreams and hopes come from.
Who said I cannot use being a literature major in GK?
Three Stories of Hope - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qjgjbk4Ew&feature=related
My all time favorite movie quote about stories:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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Once again I remind myself that my job is not something I can quantify. My work relies on stories. Stories that I can pass on. Stories that empower. Stories that give hope.
How poetic that I came from a long line of storytellers, the only difference is the stories I tell are not made up but are of real people. People respond to stories. It is were dreams and hopes come from.
Who said I cannot use being a literature major in GK?
Three Stories of Hope - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qjgjbk4Ew&feature=related
My all time favorite movie quote about stories:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
=)