Acting At Any Age
At five I was a five year old. If I acted, I acted like someone younger, a baby, or older as I perceived them to be.
For the younger, there was no act. For the older, it was miming an act. They had no real sense of what their age should be in action.
They were acting as if they were who they had seen come before them. If mimicking contemporaries, then just the same one step removed.
For those at 30 or 40 or 60 or beyond was their first day on the job in such a role. Self awareness their greatest impediment.
Them a slave to their audience, who as well knew not the role nor lines nor plot. All of it imitation of contrived expectations.
Once we start acting our age, we no longer can ever just be -- endlessly attempting to shape ourselves to a staring role no one cast.Discussion about this post
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