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"Disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running. And people fade away"
I have an assignment for my acting class. We're supposed to write a one to two minute monologue about something has has changed us. Something that has made us think differently. Here's what I came up with:
I’m a big procrastinator. “Why do today what you can put off ‘til tomorrow?” That’s me. When Jeffry gave this assignment, I knew immediately what I was going to talk about. I was all set to talk about theatre and its profound effect on my life. And then Saturday morning comes along. And my mom calls me to tell me that an old teacher of mine has been killed in a car crash while on his way home from a football game. And as is tradition with our current generation, within hours Facebook groups were made; all in memory of Mr. Layson. People congregated together to talk about him. Mr. Layson taught American History and he’s the kind of teacher that Lifetime makes movies about. He was enthusiastic, energetic, and so determined that we all come away from his class knowing something about American history.
There is not one student of his who can speak ill of Mr. Layson. It was in Mr. Layson’s class that we learned about The New Deal and the Gettysburg Address and it was truly interesting. It was in his class that my best friend and I met and bonded. And it was in his class that we were told a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. He was an incredible man and it’s going to take a long time for this to heal. But the reason I decided to share was because this one event has changed my life, or at least my thinking.
We’re young. We’re ambitious. We’re optimistic. We think we’re immortal. But this has reminded me no one lives forever, and no one can truly tell when their time to die will be. He had a wife. Mr Layson had a wife and three small children. He still had so much left to accomplish. So many more students to teach. And so with that in mind, in his memory, I’m going to stop procrastinating. Stop putting things off ‘til tomorrow and start doing them now. Because, even in death, Mr. Layson has taught me that if I keep putting things off, I might not get them done at all.
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I have an assignment for my acting class. We're supposed to write a one to two minute monologue about something has has changed us. Something that has made us think differently. Here's what I came up with:
I’m a big procrastinator. “Why do today what you can put off ‘til tomorrow?” That’s me. When Jeffry gave this assignment, I knew immediately what I was going to talk about. I was all set to talk about theatre and its profound effect on my life. And then Saturday morning comes along. And my mom calls me to tell me that an old teacher of mine has been killed in a car crash while on his way home from a football game. And as is tradition with our current generation, within hours Facebook groups were made; all in memory of Mr. Layson. People congregated together to talk about him. Mr. Layson taught American History and he’s the kind of teacher that Lifetime makes movies about. He was enthusiastic, energetic, and so determined that we all come away from his class knowing something about American history.
There is not one student of his who can speak ill of Mr. Layson. It was in Mr. Layson’s class that we learned about The New Deal and the Gettysburg Address and it was truly interesting. It was in his class that my best friend and I met and bonded. And it was in his class that we were told a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. He was an incredible man and it’s going to take a long time for this to heal. But the reason I decided to share was because this one event has changed my life, or at least my thinking.
We’re young. We’re ambitious. We’re optimistic. We think we’re immortal. But this has reminded me no one lives forever, and no one can truly tell when their time to die will be. He had a wife. Mr Layson had a wife and three small children. He still had so much left to accomplish. So many more students to teach. And so with that in mind, in his memory, I’m going to stop procrastinating. Stop putting things off ‘til tomorrow and start doing them now. Because, even in death, Mr. Layson has taught me that if I keep putting things off, I might not get them done at all.
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