Days of our Lives

When I was growing up I longed to be a soap opera actress.   I sometimes tease that in fact I did — I have a mysterious illness, a dysfunctional family and a hot steamy sex life with my leading man.  I remember reading interviews with soap opera divas who said they loved to play the villain because the roles were so juicy.  As an actor I can imagine being drawn to a wide variety of characters and scripts from outrageous comedy to bittersweet dramas and even horrific trauma flicks.

When you know that none of it is “real” then you can play lightly with the material and throw yourself into your role with passionate abandon.

What if Grace is the same way?

Wanting to experience EVERYTHING, and knowing that none of it is “real”.

In this paradigm there would be no need to ask “Why do ‘bad’ things happen to ‘good’ people?”  We would no longer look upon our self as a “victim” of our circumstance.  “What did I do to get so sick?”

If we see this moment as merely another reel in the showtime of life we might begin to glimpse that all of this could be here to bring the experience to light.

From the vantage point of Beingness, we watch the screen play before our “i” and see that everything is in motion.  Always changing, forever fluid and filled to the limitless brim with experiences ranging from voracious intensity to the subtle sublime.  All of it unfolding for our benefit.

Because we want to know what it feels like to “feel”.

If we knew there was nothing personal (no person) about it … we might embrace the Days of our Lives in a much different Light.

When I was growing up I longed to be a soap opera actress.  I sometimes tease that in fact I did — I have a mysterious illness, a dysfunctional family and a hot steamy sex life with my leading man.  I remember reading interviews with soap opera divas who said they loved to play the villain because the roles were so juicy.  As an actor I can imagine being drawn to a wide variety of characters and scripts from outrageous comedy to bittersweet dramas and even horrific trauma flicks.

When you know that none of it is “real” then you can play lightly with the material and throw yourself into your role with passionate abandon.

What if Grace is the same way?

Wanting to experience EVERYTHING, and knowing that none of it is “real”.

In this paradigm there would be no need to ask “Why do ‘bad’ things happen to ‘good’ people?”  We would no longer look upon our self as a “victim” of our circumstance.  “What did I do to get so sick?”

If we see this moment as merely another reel in the showtime of life we might begin to glimpse that all of this could be here to bring the experience to light.

From the vantage point of Beingness, we watch the screen play before our “i” and see that everything is in motion.  Always changing, forever fluid and filled to the limitless brim with experiences ranging from voracious intensity to the subtle sublime.  All of it unfolding for our benefit.

Because we want to know what it feels like to “feel”.

If we knew there was nothing personal (no person) about it … we might embrace the Days of our Lives in a much different Light.