I was watching "Shall We Dance" on TV the other day. Silly film, but what an inspiring quote from the character of Susan Sarandon: "People get married (or have relationships, I may add) because they need a witness – a witness to their lives. When you enter a relationship you’re saying 'I’ll be a witness to your life, to the good and the bad. I won’t let your life go un-witnessed.'"
We need witnesses if we are to live, otherwise we might as well be dead. We can only exist through others. We can only exist if we are “witnessed” – like the proverbial tree in the forest: if no one sees it falling, then has it really fallen? If no one sees us, witnesses us, do we really exist?
