Blog 092314

Blog 092314

Passage:

“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true.” (p 173)

Text-to-self:

This passage/quote from The Girl Who Fell From The Sky spoke to me through the deeper meaning of the sentence. It’s saying that without another side to a story, you can only share your side which soon becomes the truth. Many times I’ve heard people share stories with me, and this quote made me think deeper about if that could’ve been the truth, or simply their interpretation of the scenario. There could be many ways to look at this quote by Heidi W. Durrow, but from what I gathered I saw it as a relation to peoples interpretations of situations or lies. In correlation with the book, I think this quote was about Rachel losing her virginity to John Bailey. No one else was there to show evidence of this happening, so Rachel telling people that this occurred makes this the only option as a true story. In my lifetime, I have told people things that could be slightly out of proportion, but no one else could rebuttal it or believe it to be untrue because there’s no evidence for that reasoning. After sharing that slightly blown out of proportion story, you being to tell yourself that that is what truly occurred. I believe in some sense, Rachel would tell herself that she didn’t actually lose her virginity to John Bailey, when in fact, she did. This passage spoke to me in a big way, and I also think it could relate to many other people.