It is so difficult to think big when everyone around is thinking small.
Yea I know it seems pretty idealistic. But story telling has been a key part in my whole life and for the past two years, Ive missed being imaginative. More so after watching Big Fish. I remember beaming like a little boy all the way back from the cinema all those many years ago. The movie said everything I always internally believed about life but did not know how to express: myth-making and legend creating is vital to being human. (spoilers ahead)
In telling the story of my father’s life, it’s impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn’t always make sense and most of it never happened… but that’s what kind of story this is.
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal.
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