hard to explain

but there is a great deal to be said for just living, instead of analyzing. when you just start living and stop observing from the outside-in, things start to fall into place. when you spend too much time cogitating about it, nothing ever happens. it's like this... the more times I tell my kids 'it's time for bed' the less chance there is they will put down the magazine and go to bed. when I give up standing there and start busying myself with something else, that's when they're ready for me to tuck them in.

maybe it's some kind of zen Buddhist thing. maybe. maybe there is just no such thing as a direct route in this life. the whole point of it, whatever it is, is that there is no 'A' to 'B'. there is only a universe to traverse from point 'A' to point 'B.' and you can map it out and check your mileage and stop and get gas and refresh your water jug as long as you like, but there is no guarantee that you won't end up in Kentucky when you thought you were just driving to dairy queen for a heath bar blizzard. so why spend much of your waking life trying to force this waking life to bend to your will? i'm not pushing for a 'go with a flow' attitude 100% all of the time either.  but the point is when the supreme moments come along that demand your intervention, you will know and until then... just relax. and stop trying to control the world from your perch on the pirate ship of this feisty, unstoppable world.

and in my own roundabout, random, confusing, unanticipated, unfathomable, god only knows why I am talking about this way, this I believe is the point of what we do. we thespians. to remind ourselves and maybe a few odd people out there that there is no plan B. there is just plan A. right now and you can either live it or not.