I feel like if there was more of this in the world, people as a whole but especially the younger crowd, would allow them to be more confident in who they are. I feel like people nowadays are so good at "masking" themselves. Everyone has to pretend to be something they are not, depending on where they are, they change. You become more of something, and less of something else, or vice versa. So much so, at least for me, you start to wonder who you really are. Which mask suits you best? If schools allowed for more self expression, I truly believe that could be one of the places that helps people find themselves.

This goes along with what I said in my previous annotation. Paying attention to the smallest details in what a student does, says, or chooses, can reveal so much in who they are as a person. What they have experienced in life even. There is so much that can be expressed, without even using words to intentionally express them.

This raised an eyebrow for me...and this is something I have thought about. Why do our brains make sense of the world through stories? Something I have always thought about.

Right off the bat, I would totally agree that this statement is true. I think that people resort to storytelling when in doubt, when there is nothing else to say. It's sort of the go to move when you first meet someone, or to break the ice.