Another post (for lack of a better title!)

Hi all :) it's 12:27AM... about 3 hours after a 8.5 hour non-stop recording/ rehearsal day... to say that I'm beat is a colossal understatement :) Throw in a mild cold, and I'm just about done :)

Still, I wanted to pen (type?) down my thoughts before I turn in... for there have been many of late :)

I am blessed by a spectacular group of people in my production :) Surely, I refer not (only) to their talents on stage, but to their persons as well :) And that's what keeps me going in this production: the people :)

We were having supper (as we always do) after rehearsal, and we started talking about friendship. I've had (more than) my fair share of friendships that floated, sank, soared, crashed. I've been blessed, bitten, beheld and betrayed. And after all these years, I suspect I've not seen the last of all that...

We all hope to find friends who would extend themselves on our behalf, for our betterment, asking for nothing in return. This is clearly absurd because if we asked ourselves if we would do the items mentioned prior, how many of us would raise of hands in the affirmative?

I recall something I heard from someone (sorry for the vague!) that went something like "Life is a mirror; as you are, so they (the people in the world) are...

At the time, I thought it wisdom (and obviously, true). However, now, after some experience with friends (or fiends, as some proved to be!), I beg to differ.

Without exonerating myself from the usual mistakes, I have had "friends" whom I treated with great respect and trust betray me at the drop of a hat (actually, more like drop of a dime). The mirror analogy works very generally; but life is an exercise in exceptions.

Some people have "accused" me of having trust issues; after some of the things I've been through, I'm inclined to agree. My wonderful PA, Alvin, bought me this terrific hoodie T-shirt with Iron Man emblazoned across it :) While admiring it, it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps I am a little like Iron Man. No, not the repulsers and that nifty blue-glow chest piece! In the sense that I seem to be clad in armour...

Sigh... this post seems very superfluous. The cold meds are working and I'm not really thinking straight... but then again, who does? :) Haha!

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