Never Give Up

I gave a false impression in my Spring Equinox newsletter that I’d like to rectify. The post began with, “I gave up on my play.” I neglected to mention that by the time I’d published that missive, I was already back to work on Triage. Because I will never give up on it.

Never say never? After all, with all the human sh*t flying around, who knows in what direction our species is headed?

But I’m not going down that road. I’m going down this one: As I have written more than once, I believe our actions matter because we are all made of and connected by the magnificent stuff of the Big Bang. And I believe we all have our own special purpose that each of us must figure out for ourselves and then accomplish. We act and react, sometimes blunder, sometimes cruise our way through what life tosses at us.

But if we are intentional, focussed, fortunate, we might manage to find a certain clarity by the end of our lives. Our existence might have made a positive difference to the world…even if not one single person noticed.

I think that’s why I return to Triage again and again. I cannot give up on it because I know in my heart that I have something to say through it. No one else might ever read it or see it acted out on stage, but if I succeed, I will have done something. I will have left the world with a play that attempts to express the pain and grief that our species has caused and experienced. And my characters will be on their way to healing.

Or not. Their choice. And ours.

So I have not given up on Triage.