In my first year of College, I was fortunate to be selected by some upperclassmen (two of whom went on to have very successful stage and television acting careers), to join their touring production of Samuel Beckett’s famed five-character play Waiting For Godot.
For those of you not familiar with it, Waiting For Godot, first produced in Paris in 1953, concerns the ramblings on life by the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, as they await the arrival of a landlord named Godot, who is, supposedly going to hire them…an arrival that never occurs.
For me, it was the lack of clarity over life’s purpose as much as existential futility that was a key issue with which the play was concerned.
Since it had always been one of my favorite plays, several years later, I decided to write a sequel entitled Godot Is Waiting, which deals with a mix-up that has Godot as the main character, well on his way to meet Vladimir and Estragon, though at a similar but, mistakenly, different location.
Over time, it had been confirmed to me that the errors caused by a lack of clarity often created many of life’s problems.
So, as we enter a new season, no matter whether you’re north or south of the equator, my counsel is that, if you want your life to improve, learn to express your wants and needs with more clarity.
While it doesn’t always produce happy-endings, clarity beats confusion, every time.
Painting segment
Julius von Leopold
Wanderer in the Storm