Friday, September 10, 2010

Persistance of Thought

Whenever my head gets really going, I sometimes wonder what the point is. What good comes of this? Where is the benefit?
I'm not sure there is any at all, but wasting my time sewing my mind to the internet doesn't seem to be worse than throwing away time any other way.

I recently saw Tuesdays with Morrie, a very well done play here at BYU. It was required for my theatre class, and I'm planing on doing a write up on it as soon as I'm done with this. The story is one of a man who visits his old professor in the professor's dying days, learning much from his perspective. An emotionally-charged play, it jump-started my thoughts. I was actually quite glad because I found that I could enjoy the content of the play while analyzing the production of it simultaneously.

One of my first thoughts as I got up and left was the effect on people. We were a sizable crowd, and all of us did want to leave. The lines formed and people made their way to the exit, constantly running into the awkward junctions where who went first was rather randomized. Even so, there was no push. Consideration was given to others. I let a three person group ahead of me, yet at the next junction I went ahead of a lady. I thanked her, but wondered if that was her intention. Pondering these thoughts I considered how a crowd that had come from say, a club, would react to these circumstances.
I reached the exit and took my leave as quickly as possible, which was rather easy because I was by myself.
I pushed open the doors and stepped outside to swing music. A dance was going on, and the music was obviously swing. The tune meshed with my emotional high and a did a fast little step. Recalling Morrie, I wondered what I would miss on the brink of death. Would I wished I had danced? Acted? Loved more? Served more? Talked less? As I considered this my brain responded with it's common rhetorical question: How does considering this do anything for you? No novel thought, I realized I would continue my life and wake up tomorrow no different than I did today. "Maybe it's for the better," I pondered. "Maybe my inaction is in proportion to my lack of talent." I thought of Thursday. The day I saw the cast list my name wasn't on. Again. The day a guy sat next to me in chemistry who knew so much more than I did. He was able to figure out the answers much faster than I could. Mediocre. Normal. Negligible worth. Nothing. I chased these words around my head as I climbed up the stairs to the dorm and down the stairs to the basement. I devised to order them and string them out, letter by letter, and spin them into a blog post.
Ta-da.

1 comment:

  1. Your words made me happy and sad. Glad you are pondering life - sad you come to the conclusion that once again you fail in comparison to others. My hope is that you find at the end of your pondering that there are things where you succeed. You have a great mind, a charismatic personality, love for art and drama, music and song. You are a blessing in my life - THOSE things are so much more important than one play you didn't get in and one guy.

    Because if you look around you got in plays that others didn't - you out shined many in intellectual battles - so there are always comparisons both ways.

    Even if I was not your mother - I would say these things and be proud to know you!!!

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