So this week was interesting I guess. I stayed home sick on Wednesday and Thursday, so I was really behind on Friday. All weekend I've been doing make-up work. Today, three of my friends and I have begun practicing for the undoing recital of our director. He thinks we're only as good as a training group, but we'll prove him wrong. He won't even know what hit him. Lately I've been feeling a little disconnected from reality, a little lonely. It's hard to put into words. It's like the people around me aren't completely there. Or else I'm not. Only outside things seem to matter, things my friends and family have no idea of. And I feel like if I could just escape to a place where I could share my ideas, I would be content. Maybe I'm just crazy. There's not much I can do either way. And now for the quote of the week. "But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Francis Bacon (1561-1626) This quote reminds me of the end of Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy. "Life's but a walking shadow, who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." I think Francis Bacon is saying that no matter what happens, it's really not for any one of us to pass judgment on. Only God, or the gods, or angels, or whatever you happen to believe in, may decide on matters we think we have power over. We really don't actually control anything but ourselves. No one else really has the right to look at other people for being different; Only the higher powers may do so.
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