Monday's post

I realised this week that I completely blanked on blogs last week. I seriously need to get back into the habit of daily blogs. It blew my mind that I just didn't do them.

Anyways! Today I started reading Everyman by Anonymous, which I must say I love the irony and the message of that. Everyman written by no man. Or Everyman written by what could be anyone, so that makes me think of a universal story. Or that it could be a play about anything, its just really vague. Even the characters are vague, like Messenger, God, Death, Everyman. Good Deeds is a character! So right off the bat I was seriously interested in this play.

Then I started reading. I kind of caught on to the plot, but I had to look up a lot of words to understand the dialogue. There was a lot of thee, thine, thy, cometh, and other -th words. To me it seemed like less rhyme-y Shakespeare. So far I understood that God is upset with every man on earth. Every one neglects what God has done for them and that they only have worldly possessions because of him, and God is sick of it. (As a side note, I had a moment where I actually thanked Catholic school, because as God is talking about what he's done for everyone, he mentions dying on the cross, so for a second I was really confused and kept thinking "but that was Jesus..." but then came the light bulb God/Jesus/Holy Spirit = same person.) But finally, God calls Death to go find Everyman and tell him that basically his time is up. Then Death starts to tell Everyman its your time to go, and Everyman asks to stay and pray to relieve his sins, or make peace with everyone in his life (or at least that's what I got from their dialogue) finally Death agrees to give him one more day to either find someone to die with him or ask fro forgiveness of his sins, or both, I'm not sure.

Here is one of the philosophical parts I'm not sure of, is "Everyman" literately standing for every man? Like is God trying to kill everyone on the planet? or is his name Everyman to stand for any person, like "this could happen to any one"? But then why isn't the character's name Anyman? OR is it that every person in the world has to go through this so the play write has Everyman as a symbol for every one's "passage"? Things to think about.

Pg: 100

Today we started with or majors and minors. As a directing major I got to do movement today, which was a lot of fun. It's weirdly calming and instinctual, while still being and exercise and still being work. I was sweating by the end of it. And the mindset i tried to fall into was all about wants and needs. I kept thinking "I want to touch that person's ankle" or "I want this person to move with me this way." or when other people would interact with me I would think "This person needs to be supported here" or "This person needs to run in that direction, I have to run with them". I think it actually made the exercise work really well for me by thinking this. But at the same time I did notice that I occasionally blocked out the rest of the group because I would be focused on my wants/needs or only one other person's wants/needs. Next time for movement I'm going to try incorporating the group's wants/needs and see how that effects my experience.