My story

My story is about how I came to love literature through first reading Shakespeare which helped me feel understood and opened the door to me finding more understanding of myself and new ways of understanding different people’s stories and world-views through literature. This profoundly changed how I see the world and has also helped me to deal with mental illness. I think this story can be relevant to others because it might help them see how stories can help them connect with a larger world, stories are how we connect and share ourselves and others share themselves with us in ways that transcend physical interactions. Overall my goal with telling this story is to help people understand that stories are more than entertainment but will shape who they are and how they understand the world.