C'est la vie

After having read half a dozen plays in class this semester, it was quite rewarding to go beyond the script. My largest challenge, other than acting like a huge asshole in front of my professors and close friends, was finding a way to enter the mindset of my character and keep his motives in perspective. Although Phillip was an asshole in every sense of the word, his behavior tied into the play's critique of our emphasis on looks. By being attractive, Phillip was accustomed to getting away with a lot more than others around him.

So how much of our "success" can be attributed to our appearances? Is it only our society that places such a  large emphasis on appearances or is it of a similar importance around the world? The performance left me with such perplexing questions. Personally, I think and hope that in reality, we can all achieve our goals if we are granted the opportunity to learn and grow. However, as the play so blatantly points out, this isn't always the case.  But for those of us who still believe that we'd be so much better off if we could "just change that one thing," just remind yourself how Adam turned out the next time you get upset while looking at the mirror.

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

“When you’re in Sweden and you see beautiful person after beautiful person after beautiful person and you finally don’t even turn around to looks because you know the next person you see will be just as beautiful as the one you didn’t bother to turn around to look at – in a place like that you can get so bored that when you see a person who’s not beautiful, they look very beautiful to you because they break the beautiful monotony.”

-Andy Warhol