3 weeks of drilling, 27 hours of rehearsals, 9 performances, 6 hours 45 minutes of stage time. This is "Easter Production 2009 - The Final Solution". Since 3 Sundays ago, various actors and actresses met up at various location to work on their individual scenes. The Directors of the show Sandy and Jaslyn worked on individual's acting, speaking, emotions, positioning, dressing and make-up.
Every rehearsal we are made to walk through our entire scene umpteen times. Making sure we know how to stand, where to stand and when to stand. The entire process was being carved into our hearts.
The Easter weekend was exceptionally tiring, having already acted for 6 grilling services, I was struggling to keep myself awake during the "Praying in Gethsemane" scene at the 7th service. I literally was lost while I was pre-setting walking up the stage, all of a sudden I do not know in my mind what is the thing I need to do. But like having an auto-pilot, I somehow walked to the right position and sat down, waiting for Tian-An (Jesus) to speak to us (Disciples). It suddenly dawn upon me that knowing my steps and positions in this production has become my second nature, I no longer have to give much thinking to it, because of the hours of grilling my body already know how to respond to it automatically.
It came as a revelation, in life a lot of things to us are not natural. When I say not natural means we got to take extra effort to do it. To some of us it could be waking up early, to some of us it could means running regularly, to some of us it could be not to worry but turning to God when critical situations arises. These things are just somehow not in our nature.
"Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:41
In life there are just certain things in life that will take us extra effort to carry it out. But the thing is if we are willing drill it hard enough, we will be able to respond to it naturally, without having a second thought, it is call the Second Nature.
To Live. To Love. To Inspire.
Yah totally know how it feels like... Went thru exactly the same thing for POS last time. My mind was so conditioned to the sequence that Everything became like clockwork man... I like your allusion bro - Gotta get pyr to become our 2nd nature.
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