Chinua Achebe, quote

'The storyteller creates the memory that survivors must have — otherwise surviving would have no meaning… This is very, very important… Memory is necessary if surviving is going to be more than just a technical thing.'

this is what we all do each moment in time, this is the way our consciousness forms and re-forms, in good and in bad.

the question is not if the story is true but if it makes sense to us and if we can find meaning. as Chinua Achebe states 'there is no one way to anything', so there are multiple stories in all of us, in each one...