When it William Shakespeare said that "All the world's a stage,and all the men and women merely players"(from As You Like It 2/7) , that statement could not be any more true. In some ways, one could call our race the greatest reality show of all. Our audience is vast in which it includes ourselves and everyone we come in contact with and could very well encompasse beings greater than we and beyond our scope.

We deal in microcosms. We are the lords of our lands and the gods to the insignificant and lesser than we. We keep pets, eat plants and animals no matter how much larger they are to us. We squash bugs and kill micro organisms much smaller than we. We are our own gods in that sense.

But our minds, our psyches need to be entertained as well. So we create situations to be placed on film for the mass media to gain mental stimulation and sustenance. We play games both live and electronic that simulate greater feats than our day to day to entertain ourselves. We read books of the great adventures of those written to be far greater than ourselves. We do this to break the monotony of our day.

Yet we still feel empty. Unfulfilled. So we seek out faith to fill the void and yet that leaves us with a false sense of security because our faiths are taught to us with no fact behind them and we feel foolish. Most churches leave us feeling that life is better when we die. They teach us that we should live our lives as an audition for the afterlife. There is a terrible conundrum of duality here. Our lives should be lived to its fullest, within preset limits, yet that's ok because it will be better when we pass on. I can't subscribe to that because what the afterlife holds for us has yet to be defined in fact nor may it ever be.

The things we would like to do instinctively are considered sinful and should be abstained from, so there will be no bliss until we troll through this muck of life where we are allegedly rewarded upon death. Yet at the same time we're told to live our lives as good people who don't give into our urges.

Don't tell me to enjoy gods green earth in all it's splendor, yet only if you follow it's anal rules.

The movie "The Devils Advocate" said it best. "...he (god) sets the rules in opposition.It's the goof of all time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow." How true is this? Dangle the carrot before the ass and he will follow to toil in your fields. I do not want to have to wait to go off to die in the unknown before I can enjoy myself. I don't want to suffer in life in hopes to win the grand prize in the unproven eternity. I want fulfillment now. Right now. In this life.

Why is it, on television, there are situations that seem to be entertaining because they are odd or foreign to us? Why did one television show or another always glamorize an individual or a couple, sometimes married, as amateur detectives that solved crimes successfully? It's odd how these amateurs were so adept and always did what the professionals couldn't. Week after week we'd follow these characters and marvel at them. Well, I may ask you... Why can't that be you? Because we always believe that what we see in media is merely cleverly scripted fantasy, and yet only our disbelief stops us from doing these feats ourselves.

If this were my reality show, it would be one of drama and action. I'd want something challenging and thought provoking. I'd want mystery, conspiracy, adventure and wonder. I'd want to have this everywhere. I'd want it at the supermarket. I'd want it at the barber shoppe. I'd want it on the street in my car. I'd want it at work. I'd want it at home in bed with my lover. I'd want stimulation. I'd want fulfillment and bliss. I'd want instant gratification or the promise of eventual spectacularity.

What I do not want is to wait. I do not want to be restricted. I do not want to live a dull life. I do not want to fade into the woodwork. I do not want to wake up everyday and wonder why my life is so dull and never changing. I do not want to think that I contributed nothing to our society even on the smallest level. I do not want to know that this is all there is. I do not want to get stuck in a humdrum day to day life. I do not want to have to supplement my mental state with drugs or alcohol to escape the quagmire of my life.

This is how I'd want my life and I think you all might benefit from the same attitude.

I would want to reevaluate all that is bad in my life and try to give it an epic flair by attacking them with a sense of excitement.

You may think I'm mad. You may think I'm completely insane. Or you may look at yourselves and wonder; "what have I got to lose in changing my thought process?"

If you had everything you could ever want... Do you think you would be happy? No. That's the biggest lie you could ever tell yourself. If you had it all, you'd become bored rather quickly or succumb to the greed of wanting even more, so your happiness would wane. You see, the meaning of life is to live it with the desire to keep improving on it. To create more challenges for yourself for which you would grow.

Life is not sitting about sedimentary and complacent with a dead end job living from paycheck to paycheck or marking time by counting weekend to weekend watching your life go by.
You must get into this game of life and play it to win. All you need is that imagination to make your life an epical one.