LIFE IS BUT A STAGE

You see your life as a movie. That it will play out just as it is supposed to and that you have very little control as to its outcome except that you will feel happy or sad, or laugh at what happens. It is played out in your head with no more control than a real person sitting in a heater does to the outcome.
Some movies are beautiful and romantic. And some are scary and horrific. Sometimes they are a combination of the two. But regardless of what they are about, a viewer has very few options as to what they themselves can do to affect it. They can play it over and over in their heads, and they can pause it to walk away, and they can rewind the parts they do not understand, but there is never anything that will change with the movie itself. The events will repeat as often as you give them cause to, and no matter how it plays out, the ending will always be the same.
But life is NOT a movie. Shakespeare wrote in As You Like it that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts.His acts being seven ages."
Life is not a movie. Life is like theater. The stage is as concrete as the earth we stand on, and all this occurs happens through movement of body and soul. Of breath and of willful intent to orchestrate events to our desire of the outcome. We do not view our lives as mere spectators to a play beyond our control. We are performers who, through skill,and flexibility craft our own lives to the eventually we have chosen for ourselves.
And so here we are at the fourth act. Our intermission of deception and idleness over, and now we set forth to the age of war. When that which we strive to have in our lives comes down to a simple grim determination to accomplish it. To live with what we expect in our heads, or to take up arms and affect the destiny of change in our lives.
Nothing goes wrong in a movie. All that is there has been carefully designed to be exactly what they wish us to see, and all the confusing bits and second attempts have been crafted out without our knowledge, so as to appear to be flawless...seamless. It is no less perfect, but it is made to be seen that way, and our inability to change it in no way accepts that it was, indeed flawed.
But when our life is seen as a theater, it becomes art in the presence of reality. Lights fail, people trip, and hecklers push and sway the performers based on their success or failure to adapt. To accomplish theater in such adversities is to truly understand the art of our lives. Things will go wrong, but it is only ourselves and our desire to accomplish it to the best of our abilities that will decide whether we receive a standing ovation or the boos and hisses of an epic flop.
Take control of your lives as only a skilled performer can. See and know what is needed to create the works of unparalleled beauty that define what it is to truly be alive. Do not sit in immobility expecting us to feel what can only be forced through their idea of understanding. Rise from your seat, don the props of soldiers and heroes and step onto the stage of your life. The greatest illusion is to see a movie as the reality and that the costumes are the truth. The beauty of theater, and life for that matter, is that for all the use of costumes no one ever doubts that beneath it there is a living breathing soul who knows what it is to be alive.