Eye of the beholder

The need to tell a story would be to entertain, warn, scare, or to explain and to make a context of our past. However Phil Kaye says there is a deeper reason for why we tell stories and that reason is that it makes us feel alive. Kaye say that we believe our lives are predictable but this is not the case our lives are unpredictable and anything can happen. There is a big deep unknowing out there we can't control so no matter how much we plan out our life it is going to be unpredictable and hit you with all sorts of challenges. We tell stories to make sense of the unknown. The fact that our life is unpredictable scares and worries all of us making us vulnerable, which gives us the impulse to tell stories. It shows you shared and that what happened to you in this story made you feel alive. You sharing your life experiences and past events that made you feel alive and vulnerable is why we have the need to tell stories.