You Had to be There

This from Wikipedia, about the famous “Tears in the Rain” monologue in Blade Runner:

In Blade Runner, dying replicant Roy Batty makes this speech to Harrison Ford's character Deckard moments after saving him from falling off a tall building. Deckard had been tasked to kill him and his replicant friends. The words are spoken during a downpour, moments before Batty's death:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.

We want witnesses to our witnessing.

Most of the time, eyes glaze over. You had to be there.

Except for the blessed: those who are good story tellers. They gather witnesses. And so their worlds live on a little longer.