Living a Life

This idea that i address in this blog has to do with 2 factors.

1.) When I was getting my B.A. in Theatre, i saw this group called Dance Kaleidoscope and they did a show called seasons. The whole show revolved around the seasons starting with spring, summer, fall, winter. Each of these seasons evolved around life. Spring represented birth, adolescence, and early childhood; Summer represents teen/young adults with rebellion, and experimentation (drugs, sex, etc.); Fall represents adulthood, family, settling down; Winter represents old age and death. At the end of the show the dancers at in these movable body bags and there moving around the stage, finally they get in a line and tear out of this "cold cocoon" and are naked. Then a guy walks across the stage with a leaf in his hand.

2.) There is a game I own on the SNES (Super Nintendo) called Soul Blazer. Soul Blazer was published by Enix. One part of the game, the hero meets these people who only live for one year. If they are born on March 3 of 2006, then they wouldn't live past march 3 of 2007.

As humans we tend to think that we have all the time in the world to do anything we want. Then when tragedy hits us or we find out were going to live a certain time, then we look at or life and try to do something with the allotted time we have. People want to change the world, or do something worth while with their lives but they put it on the shelf and say, "I'll do it tomorrow," or "I'll do it later." What if we all had a year to live. 3 months of adolescence, 3 months of young adult years, 3 months of mid-adult years, 3 months of being old. If you were born in January, you should have a career by May, have children around July, retire around October, and die in December.

If you had one year to live your life how would you live it? Just saying, "I'll do it tomorrow," would be throwing away 5-10 years of your life. I think that if everybody lived there life as if they only had a year to live, then i think that people would be able to find purpose and meaning in their lives.