Thoughts on storytelling
This is a contination on the post I wrote yesterday, on storytelling. Naturally (knowing myself very well), my thoughts on this have been racing rapidly. I asked a question in a Facebook-group if there are other people who are into storytelling as a part of their shamanic practise. Oh, boy, did I get respons. 😮
At the moment, I’m sort of wondering if my storytelling should be more than my initial thought that I am the only story I need to tell, or if I should stay there. I’m also wondering how to tell whatever story I choose to tell. Should I gather people around a fire, telling stories that way, or should I write? And if I choose to write, should I write them in blogform or as books or similar? And if I choose to blog, should I do it here, or should I get myself a new domain for that specifically?
Bloody hell. My head is spinning so fast I can’t keep up. 😀
New to this specific story, however, is that so far I’ve managed to restrain myself from (for example) buying myself a new domain just because it’s fun, I like witty domain names and because it’s cool. I can’t come up with a good domain name, and perhaps that’s a good thing. I admit to being immensely proud of myself for not running into it right away, only because I can.
I think that if I leave this be, to brew all by itself, it’ll work itself out very nicely. It’s that rushing thingie I need to stay away from. I also think it’s a good thing to take one step at a time – and to start with finding a new language to use for my own, personal story. Storytelling doesn’t necessarily have to be done through words – I’m thinking it’s all in how we live, how we choose to present ourselves through clothes, hair, make up, the energy we project, et cetera.
I want to be a good example. I want to be someone people look up to. And in some sense, I think I already am.
I just need to figure out how to narrow down my perspective, what to focus on in my storytelling, and how to actually tell my stories. And that won’t be done in a day. It’ll probably take a while, and that has to be ok. After all, I got so much going on, what with the other blogs and everything else that’s going on in my life (all of it created by me).