HowlRound: Devastation, pain, and loss can result in numbing, a period of shock, followed by hesitation, reservation, and inaction. In this space one can find themself gravitating toward apathy, which is the great danger. This is also the space where the emboldened language of resilience spurs us on, whether in the loss of love or life— or a poorly received play—we are told to “Move on” or “Get over it.”
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The concept of resilience is very hard to confront and extricate from its context. I personally doubt whether resilience is something that can be avoided or circumvented. I think back over all the times I faced hardship, and I had to be resilient. A lack of resilience meant a lack of survival. If you can't be resilient, and proverbially "bounce back", you simply don't make it. In order to remove the necessity for resilience, I think hardship could not exist.
The author targets an interesting topic, and a difficult system. But I think he refuses to acknowledge that "doing" is hard, and that very fact inherently requires resilience, regardless of scale. I love resilience. I love striving to be resilient. The feeling of being stronger, like I have been tempered by flame, permeates so much of what I do, and so much of how I think. Past resilience is a source of strength for me. I think this author developed a piece that was rather narrow-sighted, raising some valid points, but omitting much of the value of resiliency.
I too, am a contributor to this cycle of shooting for the stars, and possibly losing sight of the way in which I attain my goal. We are bred in a society where we believe that more effort and precision maximizes product, but the attention to how efforts are actually executed, or what the possible effects of one's actions are along the way, are often left to fall by the wayside. Vital to this article's argument, how can we expect to produce a production that preaches equality or whatnot, when the very way in which the production was created may counter these ideals and themes? In essence, this is hypocrisy. However, how can one expect to reach a certain, desired goal, if the way in which one achieves it becomes more important than the initially intended purpose? Maybe, what this article seeks to lead its readers to explore, is the idea that the focus should remain on the process of creation, rather than the product or result - and that this will lead to truer, more genuine, and influential pieces of art.
Kevin Paul (54-102 :: A, Acting 1, Cameron Knight)
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