My Definition of What Story Is

When we heard the word 'story', nothing special comes into our minds. A story is something which is very common in our lives, something very familiar to us to the point that we didn't even realize that story is one of the main reasons why mankind is still going step by step in a steady survival of civilization. Although a story can't be seen or touched, or sensed as an object per se, it is actually a very crucial element of every man's existence.

A story can be defined as a vessel to tell about an event, about people, about everything that man can possibly find. Story is actually covering a very wide proximity of everything that has ever happened in the universe. Ever since man knew about language and drawings, story has been there all along. It may take a form of writings and scriptures, paintings, and oral conversations, and they live throughout the ages inside these things. 

A story helps us to reach into people's minds and also to reach into ourselves as men, to imagine and get knowledge about the world throughout someone else's experience, and to share our own experiences to others. Stories that we hear each and every day, the histories about the brave men who conquers the earth, even about a friend's experience of having a bad day, is something usual, but vivid, that remains in our memories, and according to me, this is where the utmost importance of a story lies.


We tell stories to share a bit of ourselves to others, and others, in return, are doing us a big favor of telling theirs to us, because with stories, we can see what we may not be able to see ourselves, we can gain knowledge in a very vast amount. But, with a hint of creativity, story can also be a way for us to create our own world, our own utopia or even hell, where we can find whatever entities we wish to have but we cannot really have it in the real world. As animators, it is important to understand what story is, because our main object is to deliver stories, through visual and audiovisual means. A story is a vessel for us, animators to bring our imaginations to life.