Life's but a stage

Now, I'm in a writing scene where I write about myself and my thinking. Next I'll be going to the bathroom and have a bathing scene where I cleanse my body and perhaps my soul. Then, there's a study scene, a eating scene, a sleeping scene...all the scene that takes picture of me, take video of me is endless and every scene I might do the same thing, but it's different because of it's time, it's thinking, it's meaning and what follows from and after.

Life's but a stage, William Shakespeare.

Life's like making a movie while movie is illustrating our lives as well. Directors are the information gatherer, while good directors are those that see things independently but not judge them, and then present them to the audience to make the judgement for themselves. Actors are the presenter of the movie, where they make the action, the motion and expression of what the director want to present. A good actor is able to understand the motion and capture it before presenting it out. Yet, every actors can be biased because they possess different strong characteristics in themselves that might not be flexible to fully present the situation as given. This is how certain actors possess their own style/appeal because of their one or severeal strong characteristics that can be improvised to other characteristics yet sustaining the original style. E.g. Pierce Brosnan have a sleek and attractive style. Then, as he acted in other films, e.g. if he's acting in a sad scene, then he will seem sad but in a "sleek and attractive style". Therefore, the sad expression is not acted purely sad, but improvised with sleek and attractive elements in it.
Camera, the main tool to capture each moment of the movie. In our lifetime, one camera can be thought of endless number of cameras for every angle, perspective or thinking of seeing ourselves is endless just that there's always one camera such that will strongly express ourself at the point of time. Therefore, a good camera man is not a one that just show you what you want to see, but what is best view that truly reflects the moment, the scene and the meaning being brought out.

Our lives' therefore is always a movie. We always have a good camera man taking the best moment of us, an actor improvising us and a director constantly observing us. Is that true? Or actually we are our own cast group for our eyes is the camera, our brain is the director and our body is the actor. Who's these parts is not a matter anymore if you were to continue identify who and what will lead to a confusion which can switches back n forth almost instantaneously. So, now that we know we're a movie ourselves, then what's there for to watch movies? To my opinion, this action is watching other people's movie. Some movies show their lives, some shows their acting while some shows their imagination. Everyday we are referencing our other people's movies and get excited with it yet not realizing that we should have lived the life ourselves to excite it ourselves.

Everyone's movie is unique and every movie has a meaning. For some movies are boring yet the meaning of it is having lived that way will lead to a meaningless life. Every scene in the movie is shown to attract us to watch, yet our lives are changed in different scenes. Each scene can sound boring or each scene can be interesting. Each scene we might not wear something new but each scene we are a new character. Every scene we feel different, we sense different things, we think differently, we do things based not only on ourselves but also on the influence of the situation. For the change is everything and yet changing at a rate of different scales.

Today I write this blog because I think I agree with what William Shakespeare is commenting about life. I truly felt the different of the stages and scene as it changes. Every part of my life can be seen and remembered and understand that I really has been a different character at different times. Sometimes I feel like nice, helpful guy while other times I get cold and harsh perhaps. The variability in myself is pretty high and situation-specific because I tend to act excitedly when I'm out and with friends, and toned down when I'm at home. The biggest distinction in me is when I'm in study mode and suddenly switch to play mode will lead to a big leap in change of character. For I cannot change who I am being such high variability in changing characteristics, but I am able to direct the scene to adjust the appropriate characteristics I want for the scene. For a good actor is able to control their character and a good director knows what is best for each scene.






Regards,
Ken