HW 31- Exploring Methods

I asked someone why they tell stories about themselves?
They responded by saying that is what you know best, you cannot necessarily honestly tell a story from another perspective, you only know your own perspective. I then told him that not necessarily in that sense but more like why do you tell stories at all, on a more general sense. He then replied "to affirm our existance" to get a response from others and see that we are paid attention to. Looking at his response as an existential view, we want the attention from the people to know because we don't want to be alone and we don't want to be ignored or "invisible."

I then asked this person why they behave in a way that is relaxed and independent. He says "because that's what I like to do, I don't like worrying, I don't like the feeling" This seems like a reasonable and authentic answer. But possibly there is a part of him that is aware of this behavior giving him some status and this response is him just deluding himself to believe that he is not doing it to get attention, because trying to be cool is looked down upon in society, but because it is really something that he honestly does for himself and it just comes off as not trying thus having the image of cool.