Second session: Tissues for Issues

Life can show us it's sunny smile and take away the most wonderful things we have at the same moment. (see picture from my last summers holiday) So after summer, many people attend self help groups.
Self help groups are there for people to help them realize that their not the only one in the world with a particular problem. And for those who have a problem so specific that it is impossible to fill a whole group with people with the same problem, there's Wednesday evenings now. Our self help group Tissues for Issues.
We all have different issues, but what we have in common is that we all long for something, we want something out of life.

Like Vera. Who strolls the parks, around the lake and back on high heels, looking for love. Welcome Vera!
And Coolman. Who wants to play the guitar but mostly talks about his friends who outsmarts everybody.
He sat next to John F. Goldman who wants to be a man with a beard and make love with a woman in front of his small mirror. But only tomorrow.
And then came Peter. He is so old he used to sail the world with Columbus but even more than discovering new lands, he wants to give.
And Maria. She wants to give love too to her son, but she doesn't show it. Instead of that she kicks him with the cask of her broken leg. She loves him so much.
And Oppenheimer who is constantly looking for recognition in the scientific world. All those magazines would do so much better if they would publish his theories about water as a multi purpose tool.
Welcome everybody. Welcome at Tissues for Issues.

Now that you are all members, it's time to introduce the rules of Tissues for Issues.

1: Never forget who you are, you all have a name. Use it!
2: Don't ask questions but make statements.
3: Be specific. A paragraph in our self help book about 'fears for Surinamese midgets who are called Stanley and live with their mothers' is more interesting than just 'a paragraph from our self help book'.
4: Place your objects towards the audience at any time. They can look trough your blackboard.
5: The truth lies in the details. So come up with details whenever you talk!
6: When we're in the confession boot we're amongst us, we can be honest, naked and vulnerable. But don't forget to hide your GP's when you're in the outside world. They won't understand. Wear your GP's under your skin, their our second layer. The people we meet when we walk out of the boot will provide us with a where and a who. The only thing we have to to is to act normal.

That's it for this week. And don't forget to support one and other by sharing new confessions and respond at others. Our power lies in our mutual recognition!