Once I realised that I could not tell the story from my own perspective, that I had no story, or one so filled with chaos and silence that it could not be rendered, then I saw that I could, because I had been watching and listening so fiercely, dramatise things from my mother's perspective, see things from her side.
In Jacky Daydream, Wilson is strikingly cool towards her parents, often chiding them for their lack of patience and only rarely making the effort to see things from their side (her sympathy is always with the child, and that includes, in this book, herself).
See things from their side.
Instead of blowing up at someone or stressing yourself out, try and see things from their side of the table.
"We see things from the other side.
He just wants to see things from the other side".
Now the new coach can see things from the other side.
Participants can see things from the other side — say, representing the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis.
It's always good to see things from the other side, and we'd hoped to meet some US Vietnam veterans when we visited Saigon.
"It was like seeing behind the curtain, and then I found something that allowed me to see things from the other side — like seeing a whole new world," Ortega said.
The darkly whimsical conceit has a certain timeless appeal: Death, sick unto himself of scythe wielding, decides to take a weekend off and assumes a human guise to mingle with mortals and see things from the other side of the great divide.
