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Writer's pictureMicah Jacobs

To Play Your Role

"To play your role in life is not just to know your lines.

That's merely the surface expression. Some people have the same lines...


It's about the delivery- and the depth of character that matters.

(not character in the homogenized "work and toil" sense).


Nobody else can play your role, because it's not for anyone else to play. It's only for you. Others might try, but they'll just never be you. As someone who can effectively mimic/impersonate, mimicry is a travesty. It should be a cardinal sin (Of course I'm kidding. I'm not the judge or jury).


So you spend all your life thinking that you've developed your character with your mind, just for some snot-nosed little man like me to tell you that you're missing half of it.


And so you go deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of your being to see which stars really have your name on them. Which celestial bodies really come alive in you from the deepest abyss and the highest vantage points?

So you dive deeply and resurface, deeply and resurface, all the while, your lungs expand and your breath capacity and control increases; until your breaths above the surface become effortless, and your sheer existence begins to perturb others. They shoot you with the side-eye in suspended suspicion. Then, with a quick breath and engagement of the diaphragm, you plunge further down to find more treasure. Maybe you'll resurface elsewhere. Somewhere where someone asks you what you've found, and you can share and marvel in it's beauty together. The beauty of a dance that never ends, until you are brought to wholeness, and the tension of love absolves you of any strife, real or imagined. Death being the ultimate beauty. Death is true love. We get to experience the different facets of love until then. Always go below the line. That is where you discover what you are. The depths from which you will eventually resurface into your role, if you haven't already.


Oh, and some people don't even know their own lines. Laugh with them anyway."


-Micah Jacobs




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