Claudia Casper

is the author of The Reconstruction and The Continuation of Love by Other Means. She currently resides in Vancouver with her husband and her two teenage sons.

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February 5, 2012

Who Are We Telling Our Story To?

Discussed: 
Mike Leigh's film Another Year

Who do we think we're telling the story of ourselves to? Do other people live, as I do, with the vague sense that the story of my life is performed in front of a witness other than myself?

In my case, I wonder, is it some notion of God? Is it a residue structure from early childhood, when my mother knew all? A close friend of mine lost her husband, also a dear friend, just over a year ago and it seems clear among many other things, he was the one witnessing her life.