Ah! but what is life without that faint yet irresistible and somewhat unexpected taste of cinnamon in what you thought was your ordinary cup of white tea.Life's little perks,hey.
I recently watched the season finale of ABC's hit series" How to get away with murder" and i must say I was speechless.Well that's a bit of an overstatement considering i never run out of stuff to say.I'm what people describe as opinionated,'a firecracker' to the classic chauvinist.Regardless,it was nothing short of amazing,but then again what else would one expect given that the show's executive producers were also the ingenious masterminds behind Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. Needless to say(and no,Golly! I haven't been watching Downtown Abbey) the show exuded originality,brilliant casting and writing. But that wasn't why it was such an unforgettable watch.Why i loved it? THE SUBPLOTS(and Viola Davis is freaking awesome).
I think the age-old recipe for success of a TV series.Well,those classified as 'dramas' is an original,beautiful story line smeared carefully with just the right and the right amount of subplots.Enough to add that 'magic' in a show but not and I insist NOT to dilute the underlying story line.As this is the cornerstone upon which a great show is founded upon.The rest are you know, what gives the house what we (the non-house builders, civil engineers and all the others at a construction site like my fourth year roommate Irene) call a 'good finish'
Do you ever picture your tombstone?How awfully pessimistic of me.Yea,yea.But no ,really do you ever picture that little unrecognized dash that lies between the day of your birth and that of your demise.Probably,not.Well, the dash,for the most part, represents the time in your life that you spent smelling the flowers.Ironic,isn't it? All of life's triumphs,tribulations,struggles and whatnot represented merely by that little line.
This irony was highlighted by Mark Salling's character in Glee,'Noah Puckerman', a devious misguided soul,and yet at that moment of grief,upon the death of Cory Monteith, he exhibits great wisdom.
.A year or two later I was to hear the same irony retorted by one Scott Gration,former US ambassador to Kenya,during his speech during Kenya's national prayer day. A remarkable man,actually who's great achievements reflect those of 'Forest Gump',you know greatness followed by greatness but unlike Forest not accidentally.One of the few who've lived to the fullest.A true example of charisma,nobility,humility among other virtues.
Life's little perks,those are life's sub-plots. The significance of the dash are life's sub-plots.Yes you graduated with honors,became The company's CEO after years of working your way to the top,climbed the Everest,conquered the new found land that would be 'America'. Don't get me wrong,all of these are by no means small feats but it's the little things in life that actually define that dash. The ones we loved,the ones we lost,the lives we inspired, the immeasurable legacy one left behind.
What Viola Davis' character 'Annalise Keating' and cohorts(Well,the crafty bunch of freshman law students and her associates who crave for her approval) display is the undeniable effect of our' side flings'. I use the term' side fling',sadly and regrettably(for all those hopeless romantics,who live for the beautiful works of Nicholas Sparks, like myself) not to describe some raunchy forbidden love affair but to sum up all that we do besides our jobs,school and so forth. You know our personal relationships,passions,hobbies etcetera.
I for one,i'm well aware of the fault we make everyday choosing to ignore these sideshows,these subplots. That decorate our lives and add color to an otherwise dull world.We are often deceived by the competitive modern day world,that it is only measurable success that counts. We live in a world where the success of a marriage is downplayed and that of having one's own island is exulted.
Reality. Be realistic, they say.' Keep your eyes on the prize',is the message parents and educators the world over proclaim to young minds. And this prize isn't happiness,oh no! as much as we have trained ourselves to believe that a life with 'more' and even 'excess' is a happier life. We're all caught up in this 'Gold-rush,just as hundreds flocked to California in 1849. Like George Hearst and his fellow countrymen who left behind their families and friends, we too are pushing aside personal relationships and our passions all to 'seek our fortune'.
Jermaine lamarr Cole,popularly known as J.Cole who to me, is one of the greatest rappers since the rise of the genre in the 80's states in his song 'Love yourz', "Always gon' be a bigger house somewhere,but nigga feel me, as long as the people in that *Bleep* love you dearly". So there goes those anti-hip-hop stereotype beliefs it's not always about money,girls and shiny wheels or that 'thug life'. Great wisdom lies amidst all the niggatry.
Anyway,it's all about the flowers folks. It's all about the relationships we build in this life, how we create new ones and rebuild the ones broken. How we touch each other's lives. Our character despite the struggles. Building better families. Marriages with stronger bonds. Spreading love and the one statement we carelessly throw around,'Making the world a better place'.
What will you be remembered for?
The greatest of legacies are created by that which is immeasurable.So by all means live to the fullest.Do that which makes you happy to be alive. A life well lived is really quite simple,actually.Find what it is that makes you happy and who it is that makes you happy and you're set,promise.
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