What makes a story worth telling? Is it about the happy ending or the character development? About exciting adventures, love at first sight, or heroic sacrifice? Maybe.
Stories have a way of capturing the imagination and bringing a whole new reality to life. It can teleport you to your deepest self or to an imagined paradise. But at the end of the day, what is a story? No matter how well told, every good story comes to an ending. That's part of what gives it such value. It is as fleeting a moment as the breath which breathed it out, and gone just as quickly. What remains is not the title, characters, or genre, but the impact it made in hearts and minds. For if a story does not leave its audience with some lasting meaning then what is its purpose? To entertain, perhaps, but only for as long as it lasts. Instead, it is the truly great stories that leave you not with an answer or a chuckle but a question. A question to make you stop and think about your part in this world we share and what sort of impact you make in it. Does it inspire you to be as heroic; challenge you to see from a new perspective; teach you what love really looks like; or simply leave you with a smile you want to share with others. How does it challenge you to - in your own way - live your life more worth living and make the world a better place. That is the measure of a true story worth telling.
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