March 16, 2004

• Finished reading through, "Struggling Truths," which is the next play that I am performing in.  It is long, but the characters have a lot of personality, and the subject matter is deep, with a comedic thread throughout.

  
  

  It takes place during the Chinese takeover of Tibet, and two of the characters are the Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong.  In the play, they symbolize the conflict between the idologies of Buddhism and Socialism.  It's pretty interesting, and I learned a lot about Buddhism just by reading it.  One of the most interesting aspects of Buddhism is the concept of reincarnation, and how each time you die, provided you have lived well, you will eventually reach nirvana.  Yet there are people called Boddhisatvas, who, although they can reach nirvana, reincarnate to help others reach nirvana.  Now that's cool.

  
  

  It got me thinking about if I were given another life to live, what I would like to be.  I'd like to be talented, to be able to dance and sing really well.  Or if I could be really athletic, and excel at many sports.  Then again, I wonder what it would be like to be someone as smart as Albert Einstein, or a great leader like Jesus, or Martin Luther King Jr.  What if I was a Rockefeller, but more progressive?  Maybe a great writer, like Jose Rizal, or a grassroots revolutionary leader like Andres Bonifacio.  There are many options out there.

  
  

  However, I think I'd want to be Superman.  What a surprise.  Of course, my alias would be me, rather than Clark Kent.

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