stories

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laughter broken into million little pieces and they all went skipping around. That was the beginning of all the fun stories. Tragic stories obviously started off from the rivulets of his tears
Stories started with man no doubt. There was the first story , the first teller and the first listener( and it takes no volumes of wit to assume that the listener was the man; and the teller the woman) since that day a tale never lost in the telling. Our ancestors needed stories for the same reason as we do. The tales grew out of playful, self entertaining needs.
So the need to tell and hear is a basic instinct. Stories are never born out of creative genius, rather necessity. The opposite of silence led to narrative. :from the trivial account of the mother’s day at home to a father’s hunting of a mammoth. The birth of storytelling needed little labour.