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In a previous posting, I wrote about my favorite scripted shows. Well, between the onset of fall television and the start of the new academic year, Joshie boy is on a change high!
PAUSE.
With each posting you will gain more insight to the many facets of me the person as well as Arêteen the company. So, let me explain something that is key to everything:
I thrive on change. I love it...even when I don't. Why?
Because, invariably, the ability to adapt to different situations, changing generations, advancements in culture, etc. illuminates a certain facet of excellence that is just the sort of thing Arêteen is about.
Change, good or bad is still good. It challenges you. Makes you stop, take pause and ask yourself:
What do you know?
What do you believe in?
What can you handle?
And just when you think you can't take anymore, it turns out you can. And that's what makes change good. Even in all its abstractness, change is really about the question: How (badly) do you want to live?
And if you don't, can't, or won't then you know what happens... you die (even when you don't).
This applies as much for bad--> good change as it does for good--> bad.
In either case, an aspect of who you are and how you live is destroyed. Destroyed to help you, or destroyed to end you.
When approached, handled and understood correctly, change will always help you to see something you missed before, thereby helping you to live fuller and truer.
Now, who doesn't want that? (some people... but nevamind)
So what the "Hello Dolly" does this have to do with television shows and college?
The Big C on Showtime is a wonderful show that highlights how cancer entered a woman's life and allows her to see everything differently. Everything becomes more important, less important, funnier or just plain ol' sharper.
And even though this is not the first nor the last piece of work to examine how change of any sort affects people, it just happened to be the show that pushed me over the edge into writing this posting... that and the fact that it's name was quite fitting. So...
As the school year starts up full speed ahead, fall television makes its reappearance and life begins/continues to dish out all its unforeseen surprises, my Big C is Change. And so I ask you...
Arêteen Reader Question #3: What is important to you? What is your "Big C?" How do you handle change?
Let me know! Until then...
"Live Excellently"
-Josh:)
