To Be or Not To Be?
Well yes . . .
What do you want to be? A poet? The president? A star athlete? Whatever it is for you, I venture that it is not what you really want or need to be. What I need is to be accepting. Grateful. Accepting of my life and grateful for where I am in that life. Where are you in life? I venture that it doesn't matter that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, whether you know it or not.
Shakespeare asks the question, "To be or not to be?". Well, yes! To be grateful and accepting, not to be angry and upset and miserable. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players," he further suggests.
Well, if we are players on life's stage, what does yours look like? You may be at the best play ever. And I say play because live is where we actually live, not a filmed or edited movie. The real stuff. Where people are "for real". They give it their all. Sometimes they forget a line, but the show goes on.
What play are you attending right now? Is it a good one? Well, don't have the "but the tickets were so expensive syndrome". Go ahead and leave if you don't like it. Go home and look for tickets to something more to your liking and try it out.
And if you can't find anything you want to go see, then by all means, remember all life's a stage, and declare yourself a thespian and create your own play. Think about the set, the director, who may not necessarily be you (just a thought!). Use your talents wisely. For we are all players.
Let everyone play, whether you think you need them or not. They have a talent to bring to the show. Will you hire a grand hall or set up a backdrop and stage in the backyard? Or simply have friends and family gather for a game of charades?
If the play is great, stay, cheer, clap for the encore. Go home and see if you can get tickets to another performance, and by all means, be sure and check out the "off" times. You don't always have to have the best seat. Sit somewhere else that afternoon or evening. Get a different perspective. Look and listen from another spot. Meet new people in your area of the theater, because if you are already at a great play, don't spend time texting incessantly or staying in the lobby because this call is "the one" and can't wait.
If the play is a good one, go and enjoy. Envision which character is your favorite. Become them. Or write yourself into the script and find out when the next open call or auditions are.
Good play - go back more than once. Bad play - leave, look for tickets to another. And if there isn't a good or bad play in your area, write yourself into and onto life's stage as you need and want it to be.