“We have to carry ourselves and each other and the concussions of love in our skulls. That’s the deal we make with the world when we’re born.”- Dear Corporation, Adam Fell
Year after year, I come back to this quote. It’s unfortunate Adam Fell has taken down the original poem where it appeared, and the revised version of the poem just doesn’t capture the same feeling.
I think there is something deeply subversive about it, and something that motivates and guides me. Our society often discourages us from thinking about the other: we are taught to think and act as self-interested, profit-maximizing individuals who only occasionally participate in or require others or groups, but Adam Fell worries over this conception and its implications.
While knowing thyself is so important, and sometimes, we must focus on ourselves due to what we’re struggling with, and it leaves little of us left to help others, it is also important to be there with others while we can to flex that muscle help as much as possible. For if we don’t carry each other, together, then what kind of society do we really have?
Bearer of Pity 