Life Is Just a Dress Rehearsal For the Real World

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS;... AND SO HE PLAYS HIS PART... LAST SCENE OF ALL, THAT ENDS THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: 'AS YOU LIKE IT.' I learned to face life without the concept of fear, unlike many others weighed down in chaotic cynisism and pessimistic notions of doom. I refused to allow anything to take firm hold of me with its druthers or stifle me with trivialities, coloring my world in shades of gloom. I thought of life as a stage, where I portrayed characters in productions, donned costumes in myriads of bright kaleidoscope patterned fabrics but I'd never been handed a written script or given acting instructions. I portrayed a troubled teen, then played the part of a nurse in geriatrics. There have been moments when I smiled as a comedian who's masked and for a while my world was filled with hysteria to the point of laughter, but when sadness touched me, it left a hollow chasm. That's when I asked God to get me through the Apocalypse that changed the world thereafter. It was all just a dress rehearsal in a world that had spiraled out of control. The theatrical stage replaced with scenery, created without human flaws. And the cacophony of voices I heard were those raised to praise and extol God's restoration of Paradise, worthy of perpetual encores and applause. September 21st, 2017 Eight Word Challenge-4 Host: John Hamilton 8 Words used in order of their appearance: CHAOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE HYSTERIA HOLLOW APOCALYPSE SPIRALED CACOPHONY PERPETUAL