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We have relationships with other people, sure - and also relationships with ideas, beliefs, objects, aesthetics, history, culture, narratives, geography, fears, desires, hypotheses, curiosities, anxieties, subselves, imagined futures...
The wild thing is a lot of people aren’t very aware about many of the relationships in their lives, even important ones. So it can be a great favour to people - and to yourself, especially - to be earnestly, supportively curious about one’s relationships https://t.co/qq6Bp53Fea
Simply sitting down and writing a personal oral history of your relationship with something can be a really radical act. You get to choose what you want to focus on, how you want to make sense of it. In my experience, relationships tend to improve when you properly consider them
And then you also see that this is not just about you - everything that *is* is made up of relationships. Everything is relationships. Music, history, physics... to make sense of something is to ask how it relates to other things https://t.co/Ru71WHTD9O
Practically everything is just a bunch of stuff. And the stuff is made up of other stuff, and there’s relationships between them. You take one thing and you fiddle around with it, try it in different contexts, move it up and down and turn it inside out and you start to understand