“In old age, that fear had vanished. All of his desperate urgency had given way to a serenity he had taken a lifetime to find. At one of his favorite restaurants, he had lunch with a friend whose son was about to go out on his own; he was looking for some advice he could share. Did he have any wisdom he could offer?
“He thought for a moment.
“’Well,’ he said, ‘just s long as he knows that things that start out poorly don’t always end poorly.’
He thought some more.
‘That,’ he said, ‘and study improv.’”
Jim Hampton
ReplyDeleteWhile I am by no means old, I can definitely understand and identify with, "...In old age, that fear had vanished. All of his desperate urgency had given way to a serenity he had taken a lifetime to find..." It's so very, very true.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Williams:
Being Black in America is a Master Class in improv, because day-to-day, from the moment you walk out of your door and into the world you never know what kind of shit this (the mainstream) culture, society, nation is going to throw at you, and you Must learn to adapt and adjust to ever changing, often hostile or volatile circumstances ‘on the fly’.
I find ‘improv’ to be an apt metaphor for our daily struggles. ✊🏾🖤