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%PLAYWRIGHTS 770710
All the world is a stage and we are all
playwrights/actors upon that stage. We are not given our
lines; we choose our plots and write our lines as we live.
Together we write our mutual play, as we act it out---
getting pretty much what we decide we want. Often we are
unaware of what we really want, but successfully write/act
and plot the lines we want nevertheless---even as we
verbally protest our developments; for we want to be able
to protest our unfortunate situation. In order to be able
to protest our unfortunate situation we choose a plot in
which our situation is unfortunate.
Our lives are full of tensions which mirror the
uncertainties in our desires. The confusions of our lives
reveal the sloppy way in which we develop our plots,
moving sometimes in one direction and other times in an
opposite direction---without integrative sense. We take
cues from each other in how to develop our plots;
attending to different playwrights desires at different
times and so making a play without integrity.
For our play to develop into one which has integrity,
as playwrights we must develop some common themes. We
must develop personal and corporate integrity. We must
accept the responsibility which we have of choice, and
realize that it is greater than we care to admit. We must
realize that many times we choose our problems,
infirmities, tragedies, etc. just as much as we choose our
successes, strengths, glories, etc. The negative sides of
our plots play a central role in our success as
playwrights, just as do the positive sides of our plots.
We must accept responsibility for how we put our total
play together---and stop blaming "others" for the
alienation, sin, and sins which we include in our lives.
At the same time we must realize that we do not have total
power, and accept the ambiguity in just how much power we
have.
Many of us write the lines for our play in such a way
that we are cast as victims in a situations apparently
beyond our influence. We can be successful playwrights in
casting ourselves as victims, and we may play our roles as
victims with distinction. Yet as successful playwrights
we do not have to develop the plot in that way, nor cast
ourselves as impotent victims. But, we will keep playing
the role of victim as long as we think superior powers are
writing the play, and casting the actors into their roles.
We cast ourselves in the role of victim because we fear
the power of love which might transform us into true
beings in love.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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