The Actual Story

The Actual Story is the story that is initiated by our storytelling. The Actual Story is like a bedtime story about bedtime stories. In other words, a bedtime story of the second order. It is like lived system thinking.

We can think of The Actual Story like a fractal symphony, as a concrete expression of formlessness. When the formless is considered, spoken, or perceived, it cannot but bring a form into being. Therefore, it is the form that makes all the difference, which brings some things into existence and makes others disappear.

When I was very young, my father reminded me about this before bedtime. When it was storytime, he used to say, "I'll just say it: 'That which cannot be said cannot be put into words.' That which can be expressed will be expressed.' Always remember that anything goes as long as you remember that a camel doesn't go through the eye of a needle.''
For a long time, I often thought about my father's words until one day, my answer burst out of me. "But Pops, if the essence of a story is dealing with contradictions, that is, the change that happens as a result of dealing with contradictions then doesn't that mean that storytelling goes on endlessly! After all, new contradictions will always appear. That's how new stories are always created! Then stories are like life itself. But then how do we know what storytelling is actually about? What is the actual story, the story that makes a story a story? Can you even capture the essence of a story?" - He looked at me and I looked at him. It took me a while to grasp the significance of our silence.




The actual story is the story of the immediacy of life. The actual story is the story of change in our lives that happens through history.

The actual story of storytelling is the conservation of change, and the preservation from change. For better or for worse, we understand ourselves as part of the organization of the living. We control the future of life on this planet and explore its history, by creating the actual story.

Through this constant bringing forth of new forms, the formless comes to expression, the process of life organizing itself. In this way, everything which has form can and will eventually be transformed. By reflecting on this essence, out of silence, because thoughts come and go, the slightest push, sometimes even a single sentence in our thoughts, can give rise to an entirely new reality. This is the story of our humanity. At the end of every story is the beginning of a dialogue. The story begins when the narrator stops speaking and starts listening. The silence of the narrator connects. It is the end and the beginning of the story. That the words of a story end allow a new story to begin. This is how this story begins.