It’s Not About The Coach meets Apocolypse Now

Written by Stuart Haden on August 13, 2014

I have watched the film Apocalypse Now many a time. On a recent re-watch the words of the character Willard played by Martin Sheen helped me understand why I have brought such a personal narrative to my first book…

“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine”

In order to be authentic we have to tell stories, sometimes these can be of a very personal nature. Showing our inner values to the outside world, perhaps embodying shame, vulnerability and loss.

Full quote below…

Willard: [voice-over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz’s memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.