BEAR WITNESS

So, it dawned on me that a great line from the movie 'Shall We Dance' is so true.
"Why do we marry?" she asks. "Because we all want a witness to our lives", he answers.

It is true, isn't it? That's also why Facebook and the like have been so very successful.  We want someone to know we exist. Some of us need that more than others, lol.  The lol in books is assumed and implied by good writing, I'll have to work out how to make you lol without writing lol. But I digress (get used to that).

We post photos of ourselves; our home; and oh lordy lord, our pets; our meals and holidays; babies and more babies; we even re-post other people's, if we feel we have nothing interesting enough to post of ourselves that day.

We post to show what we are doing... hey look, I'm alive and having fun!
We post to complain, because no one would listen if we phoned them up to complain.  We post 'Memes' to reflect our interpretation of a situation or feelings about a person, because we perceive it to be funnier than just saying straight up what we really want to say.  We want to make people laugh; to think we are funny; to feel sorry for us; happy for us; to feel anything for us. Why?  We are searching for a connection, we want someone out there to hear us, to know us, to 'GET' us.

Some look for it in another human or a pet; some in a Deity; some, on Facebook (or blogs).  That confirmation that someone knows we exist, by touch; by faith or by hitting 'Like'.

We all want a witness to our lives.

Witness: One who can give account of something seen, heard, or experienced.