The Power of One

Last night we watched a film for University Life class called The Power of One. While the movie was fine and had a good message, it simply could not keep my interest. I started wondering why some true stories simply werent as interesting as fiction. Every day we find immense interest in much less interesting stories that our friends tell us concerning relationships, lunch, and a wide variety of topics that, if put into a movie, could bore us to death. Is it because stories that peers tell relate to us in some way? Is it because we can react and influence events directly that are spoken of? True, some truth is stranger and more interesting than fiction, not only because it actually happened, but because it cannot be explained by common means.