Bear With Me
"How do we keep what happens to us? How do we fit it into life without turning it into an anecdote, a Punchline you'll mouth over for years to come. We become these human jukeboxes, spilling out these anecdotes. But they are experiences. How do we keep the experiences?' (John Guare)
The suggestion is that we are bound up in the lived experience of other people and that these other people and our experiences with them - the histories and the subjectivities - are inscribed within us and on the pattern of our lives.
Equally we have fragmentary and inward-turning histories that others are not allowed to read, like stories held in reserve.
Therefore the way in which we lead our everyday lives is part of how we develop ways of integrating with and separating from all these other people.
Sometimes the need for assistance seems like a bad thing.
When is it ok to ask for help?
Bear With Me