by Gerald Drueppel

Created on: July 09, 2009

A Narrator's Notion

Perhaps some physicist out there might agree that everything that has a time-linehas a storyline to match. Every torn up doll by the roadside may have been the wind rushing by the car window inevitably snatching it away from stubby little fingers. Or that doll may be there as an act of defiance or perhaps a questionable decision to liberate said doll. Or perhaps just a mean older sibling looking for that golden dark opportunity to inflict maximum suffering with a mere press of a button and callous toss. Regardless, it has a past and a future no matter how uncertain. No matter who gains temporary control over it or loses it forever.

Perhaps some mediator out there might agree that conflict, besides being job security for so many, is adversity's double edged sword. That it is capable of cutting friend and foe. Capable of severing any tie no matter how seemingly resistant to the razor edge of either truth or treachery. Without conflict, every storyline traverses mundane circles that accompany blissful routine. The conflict must make an appearance if anything with a story and that could very well be everything is to grow, is to learn, is even to be remotely ready for the next challenge that may arise. Though life can and does offer respites however so brief.

Perhaps some astute detective out there might agree that the really interesting story-lines whether we are there to do them justice in words or not, gets overlooked more often than not. That the writer and therefore the narrator of this unfolding plot must possess insight keen and perspective unique to catch the light glinting off the back of a really good story. To recognize subtle clues to mysteries that wait for opportunities to be captured in irony's cages to confess benign beginnings and profess ending's still pending.

Perhaps some astronomer out there might agree that if you want to see more, you have to broaden your scope. You have to expand your vision's field so the same might be true for what imagination's scope could encompass. Whether it has ever peaked over its own horizon to glimpse the unrecognizable, the bizarre and exquisite or not, there is always more unexplained than explainable. There will always be more unknown than known. Which should bring the physicist, the detective, the mediator and the astronomer to the writer's door to verify the consensus that there will never be a shortage of things to consider and document. That everything has a time, a place and a story. All that is needed is someone to tell it for them.

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