Today is the day! If all goes well, I will be able to cross off one of my bucket list items. It's a personal "biggie" for me. I will take the stage at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville and, with microphone in hand, attempt to make an audience laugh.
The audience is stacked in my favor. Many friends and family members have plucked down their hard-earned money for a mid-week showcase of recent graduates of Rik Robert's School of Laughs Comedy Performance class. I am one of about ten who, hopefully, will have the guts to show up and fully expose our delicate mental conditions to a room full of people with please-God-let-them-be-low expectations.
I will be on stage for only a short period of time. Time is relative, of course. I get three minutes. The Kentucky Derby is only two minutes long and people talk about that for a long time. This led me to thinking how many other important events only take the proverbial "blink of an eye".
I have attended wedding ceremonies that took less time than it did for the bride to apply her mascara. Conversely, one of the longest ceremonies produced the shortest union-roughly one week of marital bliss for each of the 72 minute ceremony.
Anyone who has attended a college graduation knows it takes a nanosecond to call out the graduate's name and to have the fake diploma pressed into their hands. Glance at your watch and you have missed it.
My blink-of-an-eye list is endless: childhood, first kiss, conception of at least one of my children and life. I will add another moment that passes too fast tonight. One consolation is this - at this point in my life I KNOW all is fleeting. I recognize that and I claim it. I have to wisdom to savor it in its brevity.
I just have to remember to breathe and not rush my three minutes in the spotlight. I should do OK. After all, I do have experience with the aforementioned conception episode and that turned out just fine.
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