Up: [[Accept Reality]] Created: 2024-08-04 Updated: 2024-12-25 When staging a play, the first thing that the director and cast do is to look at given circumstances, meaning what do they already know from the play’s script. It might be, for example, that the play takes places in a bar and that the bartender is 27 years old. Directors can take all kinds of liberties when they know the given circumstances, but when they do it’s consciously and for reasons they can defend. Actors use the given circumstances and build from there. In life, [[Accept Reality]] of your own given circumstances — age, context, etcetera — and then ask yourself, “Now what can I do?” This is a simple idea but it packs a powerful punch as I learn to embrace, not just accept, the reality of being sixty-five and in the official territory of old age, the third act of life’s three act play. See [[Life]].