“It’s a moment that cracks open, spills dialogue, side-glances, awkward pauses, the kind of stuff that feels unimportant until years later when it’s suddenly the whole story.”
A shared experience is the best experience because it doesn’t just happen, it lingers. Don’t get me wrong, we should all be comfortable alone, capable of having moments of pure, cinematic amazingness by ourselves.
But you know that feeling, the quiet pause where you think, I wish so-and-so was here to see
this too.
Alone, an experience is clean and contained; shared, it gets messy, layered with dialogue, side-glances, bad timing, great timing, and the kind of details that turn moments into legend. We share our lives with people, our spaces, our food, our shelters, our businesses, our stories, and eventually the parts of ourselves we don’t give names to.
Let people in. Someone else remembering it wrong might be exactly what makes it
unforgettable, and you just might find yourself in an experience worth keeping.
Stay Safe and Play Nice
Andy Baker
Bald Art Co.
