Transitions

As in dance, it is the transitions between movements that make something truly beautiful. What sets real artists apart from the masses is held within their inextricable ability to melt things together. It’s that gooey in-between that makes us gasp in awe and sit in complete amazement as our worlds and our lives unfold on a stage before us, embodied by a human with a higher-than-human skill and gift. Anyone can behave robotically: hold a pose, move on a beat, do as told. Artists, on the other hand, fill in the gaps between the poses, move between the beats, and bend the rules of what they’re told. In life, we are each defined by the choices we make between the events or places or things we ultimately end up doing. We have options along our respective paths through life, and we decide whether we want to take the easy or hard way at each and every pit stop. Our personalities and characters are formed by the culmination of the decisions we make, the lessons we (hopefully) learn, and what we do with the consequences of our actions choices. We live then, in essence, transitionally.