Aurah Gqunefere Whitethorne

“We all consume so many purposefully crafted stories that it's easy to forget life doesn't follow conventional narrative structure. We can't wait for our climax. We don't have character arcs. We live and then we don't. There is no final culmination in success or failure. We are not curated collections of achievements or mishaps.

It is not inherently wrong that we understand the world through stories. It's who we are. It is wrong not to treat our stories as living documents, as ongoing conversations. We know that our stories tend toward dichotomous patterns of black and white, so it's those structures that we need to scrutinize most actively.

This isn't easy advice to take I still struggle with it. Stories are like gravity. It's hard to examine something you've felt your entire life.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You