The Importance of Having a Witness to Your Life

I was watching the last hour of "Dance With Me", which stars Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, and Jennifer Lopez. I had seen the movie before but never noticed this really interesting comment that Susan Sarandon said in the movie. She defined marriage in a way that I had never heard before...she said when you marry someone you are promising to be a witness to their whole complete life...you see the bad, the good, the happy, and the sad. You promise to be there for it all. It makes your life more meaninful when someone is there to witness it all as it happens. I found that to be so deep! Its very true too...I mean dont you WANT your significant other or even a very close friend to be there to see you smile, cry, laugh, get mad? I would want to see people I love in all their moods because it proves to me that we are close because they let me in like that...it is witnessing everything that a person is and loving him/her more because of it.