/lit/ - Literature

>>22026652
>Meh, the most important stories are the ones you tell yourself.

But your stories are woven from others, and eventually interweave with those of others in shared stories and lives. In the middle is an essential solitary exploration that requires no censorship or constraints, a wild and free creation of concepts and stories on a terrain of asignificance free from imperative and compulsion. The censorship of one's imagination and personal self-exploration is the root cause of a great amount of evil in this world.

Telling stories to yourself is nothing less than the task of weaving your soul together from threads of experience and speculative imagination, it is the task of evolving one's identity, world-story and dreams. This must have an element of solitude, of being for it's own sake rather than being for the purpose of some public audience (even if it is an audience of one.) When one tells stories to themselves, they become simultaneously reader and writer, and so active co-creator of their story.

Everyone on Earth should both engage in personal journaling (the sacred art of exploring your ongoing life story with yourself) and engage in dedicated daydreaming: closing one's eyes and letting one's thoughts and imagination flow freely from topic to topic and exploring tangents without any "goal" except to explore, experience, and reflect.