Thank you Nour for that article well crafted with personal stories.

For avoiding one sided stories, I recommand the Ted Talk :
The Danger of a Single Story by
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie.

Coming back to storytelling, I think the stories we tell today just reflect the ones we consume.

With YouTube shorts, Reels on Instagram and TikTok, everything is polished and bit sized to be consumed in 1minite and 30 seconds.

Our stories are flat because we live (most of us) in washed worlds, filled with platitude.

I am no expert in storytelling, yet here are the ingredients of great stories :
- mix good and evil
- embrace the dark side
- combine different genres
- embrace all emitions
- invoke foolishness

Those are the flaws of humankind. We are good and bad. We have darksides that outshine our bright sides. Emotions are the dark energy of humans. We are fools in disguise.

Those are the stories that tell the fool spectrum of human beings.

🙏🏾 💯 🤎 Nour.