THE WAIT OF THE WORLD
OKAY, cheap play on the word “weight,” which everyone seems to want to lose and “wait” which is what most people seem to be doing these days. The Big Question is, “Waiting for what?”
The sense of waiting all one’s life and the Big Question aren’t new. They’ve been haunting people for millennia, causing some of the greatest literary works the world has ever know. Still, there’s something about having to wait for one’s eventual demise that’s…demeaning? Antithetical? It’s as if a mischievous Higher Power were playing with us, and in a not so innocent way. What exactly is it that is supposed to happen or we’re supposed to do?
An agnostic would say we’re waiting for the next stock market change, lover, war or epoch to begin, as if we humans had little to say or do in it all. Call it FATE (some do) or FORTUNE (some others do). But the key concept is that we’re a reactionary species, always responding but never responsible.
Others would say we’re waiting to do something that will change our life, family, friends, lovers, community, state, nation, world, solar system, even the universe. This kind of change often involves an element of the spiritual. Sometimes it’s a shift-of-perspective. Sometimes acting on something we’ve been consciously or unconsciously pondering for some time. It’s that huge Free Will thing, as if what any one person does would ever affect anything beyond the person doing the act, and, just maybe, whoever is directly acted upon. The thing here is, there’s something called responsibility involved.
In my newest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — and now in my newest movie, THE PERFECT ILLUSION, currently in filming in which I play a vacillating Dr. Stevenson — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... In both THE EDGE OF MADNESS and the Kurt Ken Kaminaka production of THE PERFECT ILLUSION there is that “Wait of the World” issue. It’s what, I believe, elevates a work from socially relevant and technically good with outstandingly persuasive special effects, to outstanding. It’s all about human nature and the human condition. After all, what ARE we waiting for other than our own demise?
Follow me for the latest wait at http://janik.yolasite.com. Click on “author,” “actor,” or other interesting venue! Then wait.
Official Actor Photo: https://i.postimg.cc/kgkxF58X/setsuko...
The sense of waiting all one’s life and the Big Question aren’t new. They’ve been haunting people for millennia, causing some of the greatest literary works the world has ever know. Still, there’s something about having to wait for one’s eventual demise that’s…demeaning? Antithetical? It’s as if a mischievous Higher Power were playing with us, and in a not so innocent way. What exactly is it that is supposed to happen or we’re supposed to do?
An agnostic would say we’re waiting for the next stock market change, lover, war or epoch to begin, as if we humans had little to say or do in it all. Call it FATE (some do) or FORTUNE (some others do). But the key concept is that we’re a reactionary species, always responding but never responsible.
Others would say we’re waiting to do something that will change our life, family, friends, lovers, community, state, nation, world, solar system, even the universe. This kind of change often involves an element of the spiritual. Sometimes it’s a shift-of-perspective. Sometimes acting on something we’ve been consciously or unconsciously pondering for some time. It’s that huge Free Will thing, as if what any one person does would ever affect anything beyond the person doing the act, and, just maybe, whoever is directly acted upon. The thing here is, there’s something called responsibility involved.
In my newest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — and now in my newest movie, THE PERFECT ILLUSION, currently in filming in which I play a vacillating Dr. Stevenson — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... In both THE EDGE OF MADNESS and the Kurt Ken Kaminaka production of THE PERFECT ILLUSION there is that “Wait of the World” issue. It’s what, I believe, elevates a work from socially relevant and technically good with outstandingly persuasive special effects, to outstanding. It’s all about human nature and the human condition. After all, what ARE we waiting for other than our own demise?
Follow me for the latest wait at http://janik.yolasite.com. Click on “author,” “actor,” or other interesting venue! Then wait.
Official Actor Photo: https://i.postimg.cc/kgkxF58X/setsuko...
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