Week 10 Storytelling: The Follow

This is a strange love story. One that is different from many others. It involves the story of how Rama and Sita got married. Their meeting and partnership is the epitome of 21^st century relationships. Come along and see how it all got started.

Rama was a young man that had a strong following on all of his social media platforms. His favorite app was a tie between Instagram and Twitter. During Rama’s daily scroll through his pages he saw a girl that he had never seen before. Immediately he spoke out “She’s a dime”. He clicked on her profile and saw that she had roughly the same amount of followers. This is good because he can use this to his advantage to get her followers to follow him. Anyway, he began to read her bio. It stated

“Selfie queen, Yogi and Dog lover

My family means the world to me

My dad is the creator of PopTarts

Don’t even try to get on my level”

*multiple emojis were included

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After reading this, it seemed as if Rama had been struck with cupid’s bow. He typed out a message that stated

“Hey girl. I think you are absolutely stunning. Want to chill sometime?”

Sita quickly responded with

“Hey boy. I would like that. What’s your number?”

They quickly began to talk to one another. They were up until 2 am every night just talking and face timing. Rama and Sita were actually getting to know each other.

The next day Rama tried calling Sita, but a mysterious man answered instead. He proceeded to say

“Who are you? Are you the one my daughter is fawning over? If so, we must meet in person to make some agreements”

And with that, Rama got dressed and headed over to Sita’s.

As he rang the doorbell he saw Sita’s father who was named Janaka. Before Rama could even get a word out Janaka said to come inside and sit. Rama was amazed by the display in the house. It was magnificent with vibrant colors and gaudy accessories in every corner. This was a lifestyle that he could imagine for himself. The purpose of Rama searching the house was to find Sita. Janaka said to Rama

“You will not find her here. She is somehow amazed by you. She always says ‘oh my god dad I like totally love him’. But I am very skeptical. You need to prove something to me before I allow you to be with my daughter. As you may know from Sita’s Instagram bio, I am the creator of PopTarts. In order for you to date my precious daughter I need you to get People magazine to follow you on any platform of your choosing. The reason I want People magazine is simple. I never got a fair shot at fame for making the delicious PopTart while others like Little Debbie have gotten spreads in their magazines! I need my time to shine, and you are going to get me there. With them following you, I can then contact them through your account saying I need to speak with their editors on very important matters. This is my “in”, and you are the one that is going to take me there.”

And with that Rama quickly ran out to get to his phone. He chose to use Twitter as his source of annoying People magazine. He began to tweet at them with such enthusiasm and flattery. He quickly realized that this would not work. Something would have to change, and it was that he would become a paparazzi. Rama went to Little Debbie’s house and began taking pictures to find out the biggest scandal of the year. Little Debbie is actually a man! Rama took the pictures straight to People magazine and was rewarded for his astounding information. In addition to the buckets on money he obtained, he insisted that they follow him on Twitter and they did just that.

Rama ran back to Janaka and told him the story. He held up his phone and showed him that People follows Rama. Sita then appeared from upstairs and squealed “My hero!”.

Rama and Sita actually began to date and were soon married. They truly loved each other, it was just a strange way getting there.

Author’s Note:

This is the cheesiest story that I have ever written, but I kind of had fun writing it. I was able to sort of make fun of the social media obsessed society that we live in today. A lot of people’s lives revolve around Twitter and Instagram and so that is where the inspiration came from. The original story is that Rama heard Sita with the bangles around her ankles. He went to see her and Janaka needed him to string and life the divine bow. Once he did this he was allowed to have Sita. In my story Rama needed to get People magazine to follow him on a platform before he gave over Sita. Like I said, this was a really silly story to write and props to you if you made it to the end, but I had fun writing it!

Bibliography: Stories of India's God and Heroes written by W. D. Monro A. D., online source

Week 10 Reading Notes: Hindu Legends, Part B

From the first page of this story I knew that it was going to be interesting. A King is always a character that has a lot of possibilities within its story arch. From the first couple of pages I get the sense that the hermits praising the King may go to his head, but I may be wrong. A line that I find interesting is “May you have the greatest of all blessings, a son distinguished for virtue and valour, fir to rule the world in peace”. I could potentially write a story solely based on this quote. It has a lot of potential on where to go. In my story I could write it from the Kings point of view. Once he hears the hermits say this, it would alter everything that he does. Would be do everything possible to maintain the world in peace or would he let it go to his head that they said he was of virtue and valour? It would be neat to see where the character goes in oppose to where the actual story goes.

a possible hermit from the story 

Sakuntala tells Dushyanta that the hermit Canna is not her father, but rather prince Causica is. The hermit took her when she was a baby. After she said this, Dushyanta immediately began thinking of her as his wife and queen. What if I switched the story around? Maybe she could be born from the peasant but the prince took her as a baby. This would make her different from others around her. It would be her secret that she would not want to get out in order to not harm her reputation. This would be a different type of story then what I usually write. It would still be a love story in a sense, but more of an alteration of the original story and would follow the lie that Sakuntala tells. Would the King still love her? Or would be pity her for being born of a hermit?

Bibliograhpy: The Indian Story Book written by Wilson, online source

Week 10 Reading Notes: Hindu Legends, Part A

This week I chose to read a story that is about Hindu Legends. I was immediately drawn to this topic because I find it very interesting. After clicking on it I decided to go forward and reading part A.

I have had a friend that used to live in India and my Aunt visits there as much as she can, and from the pictures there are always cows! Even in the movies, there are always cows! I knew that they were sacred in India but I never knew why. The Sacred Cow story will be very interesting for me to read as I discover its importance.

sacred cow

It is fascinating to read how they praise the cow. It is very different then anything I grew up reading, so I can understand how the people in India truly believe that cows are sacred. The cow is treated like a King! Getting fresh fruit and getting to sit in the best grass. I think that a fun idea for a story would be to transfer the cow’s sacredness to America. If I saw a cow walking around the city then I would think it was a little strange, and that is the point of the story! It would follow Americans as they realize that the cows are becoming more important in their lives and that they must respect the cow. At the end of the story the streets of America would be like India today. They would not eat beef and honor the cow in everything that they do. This would be a major culture change to what America is today.

Bibliography: The Indian Story Book written by Richard Wilson, online source