Play time

We love to attend plays together as a family, this past year we have attended Tarzan, crazy for you, 110 in the shade, to kill a mockingbird and the drowsy chaperon to name a few. Every year we love to see A Christmas Carol at the Hale Center Theater, and this year was no exception.
As we filed into our seats, I sat down and began my two favorite things. Reading the playbill and watching the other guests. I love to read about the actors and their lives, but the watching the other guests is probably the favorite. I like to try and guess what their lives are like, What they do for fun and how some couples ended up together. As I was thinking these the thoughts it occurred to me that plays have a way of changing people. We enter as strangers, not knowing anything about the other guests, and leave almost as a family.
As we watch the actors act, we become a part of their life on stage. We laugh with them, cry with them and learn to love or hate them. we do that as a group. And in the end we conquer whatever the foe was. It could selfishness as Scrooge did in a Christmas Carol. It could be prejustices as in Tarzan. Whatever the foe is, we come out conquer er and hopefully a little better because of it.
I am grateful for writers and actors, I am grateful for their talents, their love of the art and their dedication. One day I would like to be in a play. I don't know that I would make any type of a difference in anyone life, but I would like to try.