That’s a much more positive and eloquent way to put it. I oddly often find myself in positions where someone seems to need to hear this same idea but I usually just say that life is like a TV show but one with really shitty writing.
I believe that narrative structure is of course one reason- a narrative structure helps make fiction more interesting and leads you to a specific goal which life seems to often lack- bit to go one further, fiction has to suspend disbelief. Life does not.
We all know they tend to modify “true story” movies for story reasons or to fit a run time or condense characters- but NUMEROUS “true story” films actually are modified so the stories are more believable.
In real life when someone falls out of a plane at thousands of feet without a chute and survives or even comes away with minor injuries- we are maybe amazed, but we sort of have to accept it. In real life when someone is in a bind and right then the “perfect” opportunity or “miracle” comes along to solve the issue we are like- “lucky! Wow.” When the police make a mistake or they catch the crook because of some fluke- it is what it is. In fiction- we tend to call bulllshit. We scoff at the action film where the hero walks away from some explosion without hearing loss or death or massive internal injury- it’s very unlikely- but it isn’t like it has never happened in real life. The truth of lies is that lies- or stories- tend to be more easily accepted when they are simple and relatable.
If you are late for work, it doesn’t matter if you are late because of some unlikely or insane chain of events like the sort people experience usually at least once in life- some fantastic story involving a bird flying into your open car window that turned out to be an endangered species and you getting pulled over and being unable to call due to being detained on suspicion of animal trafficking or something- saying you got a flat tire or there was someone blocking your parking space or whatever is probably going just be accepted and moved past or warrant a “pleas try to be on time in the future” or something vs. the truth which may not be believed enough for someone to even bother asking for evidence.
So life is often stranger than fiction, where fiction most often endeavors to make sense and be accepted.
I believe that narrative structure is of course one reason- a narrative structure helps make fiction more interesting and leads you to a specific goal which life seems to often lack- bit to go one further, fiction has to suspend disbelief. Life does not.
We all know they tend to modify “true story” movies for story reasons or to fit a run time or condense characters- but NUMEROUS “true story” films actually are modified so the stories are more believable.
So life is often stranger than fiction, where fiction most often endeavors to make sense and be accepted.