innerviews_dafremen Dafremen On the_show: I was in the shower today, thanking the warm water that was hitting the back of my neck and vowing that one day I would return the favor. Crazy? Give me a few minutes of your time and perhaps together we can see. No doubt some of you have heard me mention " the_show ." I'll say, "enjoy the show" or "give me a show for a show..even trade." I MEAN these things when I type them to you, but WHAT exactly DO I mean? One might guess that I aspire to build an audience, fans if you will, in order to bask in the glory of their adoration. One would be wrong. The_show, to me, is the ultimate expression of my appreciation for the experience that I am now privileged enough to be enjoying. I am hoping to provide an experience in return, to play a part as a prop or character in your experience, be it wicked, wacky, wise or wonderful. I believe that all matter and energy comes from the same place (see also: Daffy) and that the only reason that the material which is me gets to be human, is because of the path that it has taken in its journey through the ages. Likewise, the EXACT same stuff (matter/energy) took a slightly different path through space-time to become the water that was hitting my neck this morning. The exact same stuff has taken a different path to become each and every one of you. You WILL go back into the Earth, as will the water...and as will I. Eventually, the Sun will swallow the Earth and someday, the Milky Way Galaxy will recycle the Sun and its planets. Everything will be one again. You are a part of me, I am a part of you. The props in our daily lives, the water, the cars, the chairs, the dirt, the mountains, the computers and television sets, the moon, the stars, the very air we breath..these are ALL part of us, a part of us that is right now playing a part in the glorious spectacle that is all around us and which helps to define the reality of our daily existence. Someday, the Earthbound props will go back into the ground, somewhere a living thing will be born and it will start to eat, drink and breath. It will start pulling material up from the Earth and some of that material will become a part of that living thing. Every bite leaving behind a little of the material that was in that grass, that carrot, that steak. One day, it will even become part of a sentient being like you and I. Then it will actually have the ability, as does the material that is you and I, to think and to wonder. In a similar fashion, some of the material that is me will be broken down into its most basic components and could perhaps become part of a stream of water. I WILL become a prop, it is inevitable. I will play my part in creating an experience around the living creatures that my material will then coexist with. My question for you is, why should´t I take a lesson from the props around me and give a show without intent or expectation? Better yet, being sentient, intelligent and aware, able to give the best damned show of my existence as the material that is me, why SHOULDN´T I do so NOW? Why SHOULDN´T I add to your experience? Why SHOULDN´T I incite pain or joy in your heart? You are part of me, I am part of you, it´s an irrefutable FACT. Don´t you think that you deserve a show for a show..even trade? I think that you DO. So enjoy the_show lovely pieces of me..I know that I have, and I thank you for that. 020616 what's it to you? who go blather from