Participation.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. 

Listening, children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin to tell stories, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Eudora Welty

One of my students said that this is the difference between fishing for fish and catching them.