Think beyond words exercise

Although writing holds its own set of advantages when telling a story, the ability to organize and compose your thoughts being one of them, the videos have the ability to do something that the written letters cannot. The videos allow us to see the person in front of us, living and breathing, as they willingly share their stories with the world. We can listen as their voices waver and crack, and see their faces contort in remembered pain and terror. These deeply personal connections can be made over paper, but it is those uncontrollable bodily reactions that add to our deeper understanding of these people, their lives, and how truly affected they are by the narratives that they are sharing with us.