Choices

There's this great show headed for Broadway. It's called Passing Strange, and I saw it last June at the Public Theater in NY. Quite seriously, it changed my life.

There's a line in Passing Strange where Stew--the guy who's at the center of the action--says something to the effect of "I woke up when I was 45 and realized my entire life was based on the decisions of a stoned 17 year old."

How true.

Someday, I'm going to be 45, and I'm going to more fully understand the impact of Stew's message. This blog--its very existence pretty much rules out my options of ever entering the business world or running for public office. That was a choice I made, rather deliberately. I trust that my writing is going to bring me to the places I need to go.

I recently came across a post on the Huffington Post by Jon Robin Baitz. He's a playwright, and he created that show Brothers and Sisters. In his HuffPost blog, he talks about his struggle to assimilate to the Hollywood machine and how that struggle, ultimately, drove him back to New York and away from the series he gave birth to.

If you're hurting to see the value in the work you're doing.
If your god is telling you to try something new.
If you're pretending to accept situations that are driving you crazy.
Read this.

And remember, the only time it's too late to make a change is after you die.