Very few of us dare to express our fears, and even fewer of us dare to explore them.
And only rare exceptions -- Mira Nair's masterly "Monsoon Wedding" comes to mind -- dare to explore the differences that arise when newlyweds deal with family, finances, faith, monogamy.
Treading warily into territory that few dramas dare to explore, "Fly Away" is a defiantly unsentimental look at the complex codependency between a harried single mother and her severely autistic daughter.
The best-known example is Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With Rama," Rama being a huge spaceship of unknown provenance that passes through the solar system without divulging its purpose to the humans who dare to explore its vast interior.
Only when the fear of suffering is no more will you walk full stride and dare to explore the full potential of the life process that you are.
We find ourselves with a double responsibility: on the one hand, not to fall to conformism, and, on the other, to dare to explore the uncertain contours of the future.
When job loss is at an all-time high, it is an invitation to reinvent ourselves, our skills and talents, and to dare to explore the dreams and potentials that have lived outside of our previous comfort zone, our occupationally-challenged box.
I was thrilled by the way Knausgaard dared to explore the absolutely mundane, while also being unembarrassed about considering the utterly transcendent.
But unlike the other nominees, it was also a record inspired by the likes of Harold Pinter and TS Eliot, a record that dared to explore brave new lyrical territory (unless I've drastically misread the Katy B record, I didn't hear it referencing the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign).
For the uninitiated, Little Dude is the real-life extension of an anonymous guy dubbed Big Dude who dared to explore what his manhood did while unsupervised.
