My high-school boyfriend wanted to marry me, because he thought the most important thing to have in life was a witness. To marry your high-school girlfriend, and have her with you all through life—that is a lot of witnessing. Everything important would be witnessed by one woman. I didn’t like his idea of what a wife was for—someone to just hang around and watch your life unfold. But I understand him better now. It is no small thing to have someone who loves you see your life, and discuss it with you every night.Sheila Heti is such an interesting writer, taking stranger concepts and making them into something oddly universal. 'My Life is a Joke' is a monologue from a dead woman and it resonates both for the life in it and the grief of one only half lived.
You can read 'My Life is a Joke' over on The New Yorker website.
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