Storyteller in the data-loaded age 信息过载时代的讲故事
When technology disrupts so many things, I would feel it’s our responsibility to rebuild its order up. As we migrated into a new era with scattered information and overloaded data, there’s a need to regain our appreciation of true story happening in our world. We constantly grow to consume more information than we used to be, and with explosion of various terminals and facilities, it’s even a crisis facing our humanity that we lost the ability to see what really matters. Storytelling, somehow, could save us from this nihilism.
Everyone has the potential to be a storyteller on their own, and we all can add meanings to all the randomness emerging every day. A great story, regardless of formats, could beat against time and last eternally. A great story can be a film arousing authentic emotions, or an exquisite fashion show liberalizing free spirits, or a vintage-style magazine curating the elegant and intelligent articles. A great story could help us navigate our direction ahead, awakening from mists of chaotic data.
To be a storyteller, one needs to stay vulnerable and authentic. Vulnerability could help us know who we really are, thus positioning our relation with the outside world. It makes us always stay in awe of the world we live in, and uncover our most inner empathy. In the process of learning to be a storyteller, we are able to connect dots, as well as rediscover universal humanity residing in ourselves. Every story is data with souls. It connects us with our inner self, and help us embrace the world.
Ellen C
当科技解构了如此多的事物，我感受到将之重新建构便成为了我们的责任。当我们伴随着碎片化的信息与过载的数据进入一个新的时代，我们需要从新来获得对发生在这个世界上的故事的欣赏能力。相比之前，我们逐渐的消费掉了越来越多的信息，而且随着各种终端和设备爆炸式的增长，这甚至可以说是我们人类所面临的危机，我们已经丧失了辨别事物价值的能力。讲述故事，在一定程度上可以把我们从虚无主义中拯救出来。
每一个人都有潜力成为一个讲故事的人，而且我们可以为每一个每一天所随机出现的事物赋予意义。一个伟大的故事，不管体裁如何，都可以战胜时间传颂久远。一个伟大的故事可以是一个燃起真实情感的电影，抑或是一个展示广阔的自由思想的时装秀，或者是一个编织智慧与优雅的文章的复古杂志。一个伟大的故事可以为我们的前行导航，将我们从混沌的数据中唤醒。
作为一个讲故事的人，他必须保持柔弱与真挚。柔弱可以让我们知道我们是谁，以此来确认自己与外部世界的关系。它让我们对自己所处的世界保持觉醒，揭开我们内心深处的良心。在学习成为讲故事的人的过程中，我们能够连接各个结点，发现内化于我们自身的普遍的人性。每一个故事都是有灵魂的数据。它使我们与自己的内在相连，帮助我们去拥抱这个世界。
Ellen C