Reply To: Exercise 1: Evoke Emotion, Create Meaning
Among the people with whom I had this conversation was my friend W.
I asked him because we had a moment when we shared lunch together.
Starting was easy, though I felt I should explain why I ask him this “Off-topic” question.
At first he was a bit unsure, maybe guarded, but then relaxed when I asked him to describe the place/situation in more detail so that I can “also be there”.
It honestly felt like an honour/privilidge to be taken through his words to the place he described, but at the same time I felt like an intruder, who only got there because I made W. tell me about it, not because he told me from his own motivation.
I could relate well to what he told me, the place, the feeling of dusk, the feeling of the crisp, slightly moisrt autumn weather.
He had difficulties describing the overall feeling, and we searched for words together, but only found a number of words which each were not precisely what he felt, but agreed that the experienced feeling was the one between these words.
It wasn’t hard, but felt unnatural/inappropriate entering a sacred, personal place with a script.