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Making up stories
Why are we sometimes hooked up on the phone? Why is it hard to make the phone dead?
Just got a telephonebill, one phonecall: 28 euro... (well, this is promising for the future... other bills to come...)(and I tell you, having long distance friends is not helping things...)
I remember those days, when things went wrong at home, and me, I am a talker, on empty words but when it comes to the real stuff... well suddenly the silence seems to big, and I don't have any words left...
I still do it, in difficult moments, call a friend to not to talk, not to say anything, just silence the two of us, on the phone.
You may say it is expensive silence. It is. But there is so much more said then when we would use words. And for that reason it is worth it every penny.
I silenced for hours 7 years ago...
Or I called a friend and said 'tell me a story', and she knew I just needed to hear somebody, rather than talking on what was on my mind.
It has always been like this and it will stay a little longer like that (though, I did change and talk easier now)
Not all my friends understand, these silences, they try to peek in me, to get the words out. But it is no use.
Hearing stories makes me calm. Maybe because it reminds me of the amazing fairytales my father invented when we were kids. On the little dwarf that travelled the world. And in the end we were so tired we could fall asleep with a peaceful heart.
Making stories is fun. Let your mind explore the most amazing fantasies. Put a word and stick one next to it, and in the end you have this non existing reality.
I've tried it with really good friends, and it is funny to see how some have this mindblowing fantasies, and just do it in a sec, while others really have to let go reality.
But once they get into the making up part, it is amazing.
Then you get fun for hours.
And in the end, it gets hard to sleep.
So try. Maybe a story on a girl and little cakes?
Posted on July 31, 2003
in Living in Belgium
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Darling, just a quick comment about the photo,
Posted by sigali | October 8, 2003 9:32 AMwhen we do our jewish arab cookbook - please remind me of this photo...... the one that attached to your storytelling story...
sigal