Yesterday I realized something; when I tell a story, I'm usually not in it. I was thinking about it and when I tell people what I've done or answer questions about where I've been or how was work etc etc... I tell them about it with myself in the omniscient point of view someone would write a novel in. For example "How was your day?" would be answered by something like "Good, the boss took us out on his boat down around where he lives and showed us the area. And one of the other guys at work lived down there so we saw the town he grew up in. It was nice." rather than "I went for a nice boat ride today and I saw some really nice scenery and where the boss and one of my co-workers lives."
I was thinking about this and it's just that in my voyeuristic, look at life, experience is cool, see this - see that way, I store all my experiences as I actually experience them and I realized when I tell people about my experiences I tell them the same way, as if I was watching it all from the sidelines rather than being actually there.
Silly but true... but I know it now, so my ambition is to start being a part of my stories, rather than the narrator sitting on the sidelines.
