Retrieved from "it's okay not to be okay" 19/082016
“its okay not to be okay” is a network that is
constantly expanding. This person connects with that person and that person
connects with the next. A map or people all interacting with shared experiences
and emotions. As you read through each individual story (some from 3 weeks ago,
some from 3 years) you can’t help but wonder how each individual feels when
they write their story. All the stories I have read have such beautiful
messages and photos to go with it, they are written by people who seem to be so
strong and held together.
I can’t help but look at these people as
flaneurs of this growing map of people.
When you read each story by these strong
and held together people you realize that this wasn’t always the case. These
people have had their hardships and some may still be battling but when
approaching the subject for everyone to read they pull themselves together and
share a bundle of emotions and experience.
To me the “flaneur” Richard Prouty
describes can have its negative connotations, as flaneurs are people who are spectacles
of display, people who draw the attention of others. However, in the case of
this network I believe flaneurs have a powerful pull on the network of people
surrounding them. The flaneurs are those who write their story to hundreds of
people they don’t know. They draw attention to their experiences, feeling and
sometimes even their fight back at depression, in order to show others that
they are not alone. Although these people may not be as held together and
strong as they appear on paper, but they are producing hope for everyone who
needs that someone to show them there is hope. Attention is drawn and yet
instead of that jealous feeling we all get inside we get a feeling of warmth
and hope for things ahead and those suffering.
References:
Kuttainen, V. (2016) BA1002: Networks, narratives and the making of place, lecture 3: Maps. [Power point slides] Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au
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