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Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of stories. Whether they’re the ones we tell proudly or the ones we hold tight, buried beneath our chests, stories have an innate value and a unique ability to influence us.
Of course, as a writer, it’s natural that I’d be interested in stories. They’re the building blocks of my vocation. Whether I’m writing a creative piece or hard news, the objective is the same: to tell a story.
However, I think you’ll see that stories are important to more than just writers. Stories, in themselves, are essential aspects of the human experience.
As humans, we cling to stories to explain the world around us. Stories inspire us, they help us understand, they give us empathy and they influence our thinking.
I’ll go one step further to claim that stories are the cornerstones of human relation. They’re how we understand each other, how we find commonalities and how we share pieces of ourselves. The thing is that we see ourselves in stories; they hold up a mirror to us and force us to examine our lives and our society.
In this issue, we challenged ourselves with this question: how do stories show us what it means to be human? When we look at the stories of others, we as human beings see ourselves in that metaphorical mirror and begin to understand further what Being Human means.
Each article in this issue is a profile that shares the story of a human being. These stories allow us to see others for more than we typically would and to see different perspectives and aspects of being human.
I hope that this issue will help you to see the importance of your story and change your perspective to see human beings as doing their best being human.
Thank you for another year of supporting this odd practice we have of collecting stories and writing them for our community to see. Thank you for reading our stories and sharing yours with us. And thank you for being human with us.
Best Regards,
Jesse Watson