unknowingness

I felt shamed and scared, the unknowingness of what people may or may not think.

“The unknowingness about what is going to happen — it really has people frightened, losing sleep, calling our hotline for updates.”

All of Chai’s characters are lost in some way, struggling with “unknowingness”; characters navigate new cities, new countries, a new life stage.

“I’m very close with my kids and my parents, but there’s still that essential unknowingness, and maybe that’s about how we’re all alone,” she said.

I don’t think anyone’s involved, in the same way that I am, with the subject-object shift and the interior unknowingness of where you are in relationship to space and time.