Gender on my Roll
We all play rolls in the academy of life. Many of us should be awarded for these roles because we play them better than any member of a screen actor’s guild. In many respects life itself is simply one large cast and we all do our part to keep the show progressing for the audience, who also is fulfilling a double role of simultaneously being entertained and providing entertainment.In plays if an actor forgets their line or refuses to play a role in the midst of a production then what would happen? Everyone else’s role would change and the entire production itself would become something different. Less rehearsed and more extemporaneous.
What if someone were to do this in real life?
What if the woman were to break her socialized accepted gender role of taking the backseat? What if people of different ethnicities began to embrace the typified role of another group? What someone changed the role of what a parent should be and decided to teach their child true history debunking the traditional role of accepting Americanized history? Does this mean the entire production of life would become different?
Perhaps one should seek to find out. Often many people are not content with the roles that they play in their life. However, these same malcontented individuals do not do anything to change their role. They continue to plod through life at a methodical pace waiting for someone or something to come along and change things for them. Some people play their role so well that they receive a new and better part in this giant cast of life but, the harsh reality is most people do not get this break. This portion of humanity is the percentage that this text is lamenting to.
We have the power to play a different part. We simply have to exercise that power. The best way to do this is by simply studying and learning the part that we want to play. Become an understudy of sorts and when the opportunity presents itself to assume that role. Take it!
Peace
posted by Words.worth @ 2:03 PM
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