Your story, it’s not boring and ordinary, by the way. We just get the one life, you know. Just one. You can’t live someone else’s or think it’s more important just because it’s more dramatic. What happens matters, maybe only to us, but it matters.
- from the movie Ghost Town
If you haven’t seen Ghost Town you’re missing a terrific movie. I urge you to pick it up and take a look. What struck me about this bit of dialog I extracted, is how many people think of their lives as boring and ordinary. And they’re not. In the twenty-five odd years I’ve been interviewing folks, I’ve yet to encounter a life that hasn’t been interesting. As human beings we all deal with joy and suffering, success and failure, love and loss. How we each cope with life’s challenges is endlessly fascinating and ultimately illuminates our shared human experience.
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Thanks for the tip, Dan. This movie slipped under my radar. Sounds good.
@larry lehmer. Thanks for dropping by Larry. There’s a lot of good material in Ghost Town for those of us involved in personal history work. And besides, it’s a really fine movie to boot!