What’s with all the favorite questions lately? Pick your favorite movie… Pick your favorite holiday… Pick your favorite B-Comedy actor/actress… Pick your favorite blogger…
Can you be a little more specific please? “Favorite” is such a hard thing to pin down. Is that my favorite from the last five minutes? Is that my favorite within a very specific sub-genre from the last five minutes? Is that my favorite that I own and consume regularly within a very specific sub-genre from the last five minutes? I don’t know about the rest of the blogosphere, but we here in the kingdom find it very difficult to say that anything is our favorite one thing.
Well, except the wife, of course. That goes without saying… What? I just said it? Oh, I guess I did. So, I guess that guess without saying whether I say it or not. Okay, I just confused myself. And I’ve managed to write 150 words without really getting to the heart of today’s post. So, without further ado:
My Favorite Story From When I Was A Child
Wait, before I actually start, how are we defining “child” today?
I guess that doesn’t matter. And I said without further ado so I’m better get on with this…
The Indian in the Cupboard series, The Plant that ate my Socks, the Narnia series, the Bunnicula series, the Maniac Magee books, the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy (and all the rest involving those characters), The Hobbit… And those are just the ones I can remember right now as I’m typing this up.
Did these stories influence the person I am now?
Of course!! Everything we read affects us. Everything we read we learn from. We learn a little more about ourselves and we, hopefully, learn a little bit more about the world around us. We gain knowledge. We work our imagination. We grow. We adapt.
Even when you read something that isn’t well written, isn’t entertaining, and doesn’t pique your interest, you are still learning something about yourself, aren’t you? I would challenge you all to test that theory, but I like you all too much to subject you to bad writing on purpose.
Hmm, though, if you’ve made it this far into the post, perhaps it’s too late for that…
Alas, I digress again.
I am the writer I am today, the Jester and Scribe of The Matticus Kingdom, I am the person I am today because of the stories I read and loved as a child. If I hadn’t read them I would be something else entirely.
Like a mime or clown or something…
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