The best stories

Are the simple ones.

Where I don't need to think too much, I can root for the protagonist, because he or she is me. And we are flawed and this is our journey. And so we try, we hope, we fall, we get up, we give in, we wake up, we love, we laugh, we lose...just not too often, we shed a tear, annnd we move again, we win.

And when the dust settles, there is a slight twinge, because he or she and me must now separate.

Oh, but what an adventure it is!