Life of Pi, part 2

Actually I wanted to post something like "Home sweet home" or some other kind of retrospective about our holidays at least ten times, but finally never got round to it... so now, here it is in short form - our stay in America was just great, we enjoyed it until the very last minute... and I can't believe it's already been one week since we came home! Not to mention all the things that have already happened... :)

But right now, I only want to post an extract from the same book I've already quoted a few weeks ago ("Life of Pi"). Asked about the story of his life, the boy gets involved in a discussion with some officers who don't believe what he tells them and demand that he should stop inventing things and stick to the facts - this is what he then teaches them and what really made me think:

"Isn't telling about something already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention? [...] The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"