Voices
My favorite workshop we did for freshman seminar was Voices.
I was actually not planning on sitting down and listening to the performances. I went to the bathroom and ran into a friend in the hallway and was talking to her. But then Stan, a brother who works in the theater department, saw me and told me to go inside. Oh well.
But I was pleasantly surprised the monologues were pretty interesting and some of them were even entertaining. One of them was particularly captivating. A girl wrote about a friend from high school who passed away and the effect he had and continues to have on her life.
It took me a moment to realize that I knew the girl, and that I knew the boy she wrote about.
I was almost crying, her monologue made me think about Keanu which I hadn’t done for some time. Aside from my feelings about my friend it also made me realize something else. Its important to remember where we came from. Our past has shaped who we are, and we won’t be able to understand and influence how the present will shape us for the future if we don’t understand how our past has shaped us for the present.
