I was doing a little Bible study time tonight and was reading 2 Timothy 2:3. It spoke to many things about my life right now, but ultimately it led me to a bit of revelation.

I'm a storyteller and filmmaker and all through film school, and even through virtually every course of the Master's program I'm in currently, the common thread about good storytelling is that having a protagonist make the decisions we want them to make as we watch them on the screen would lead to a very dull and quick movie. Hence the need to watch them fall over themselves in bad choices first, BEFORE making the choice we want to see them make.

Let's take a look at a man, Jesus, who did everything right and his story on Earth was filled with conflict and ended in violence. This is interesting to me and I'm going to consider how I move forward with my storytelling after school. Can a protagonist make the right decisions and how will making those choices affect the supporting characters? If we look at the stories from the Bible, doing the right thing caused a lot of anger and hatred in people which ultimately impacted the "protagonist" Jesus. It certainly hasn't made for a dull story.