I saw the musical Rent yesterday (for the 4th time might I add). It wasn’t nearly as good as I remember it. I’m not sure if it had something to do with the fact that it was my 4th time seeing it or if it really wasn’t a good performance. Anyway, I’m not going to talk about Rent since that’s already been done before. What I am going to talk about is what happened after the show.
I’ve never been bothered by it before, but I realized that a lot of people who graduated from my graduate program are really immature. It was the first time that I had seen some of them in over 1.5 years, and going to Rent was kind of like getting to know them again. But, honestly, I can’t believe how immature they are. They started making fun of the songs in Rent and the lyrics as well.
Although it was a bit funny at first, it really dragged on me. I mean, how many times can you find entertainment value in someone singing a song from Rent in a silly voice. I thought it was all very purile. I can see it coming from 6-10 year olds, but from people who are my age it just starts feeling ridiculous.
Anyway, so the thought came to me that maybe this is the problem with the games industry. Since all these people graduated from my graduate program, they all went into the games industry. Maybe the reason that the games industry can’t grow up is because all the people in the games industry are still immature. They are still in the “dick and fart jokes” stage. I really hope someday a mature group of individuals can pull together and make games with meaning, and I’m hoping that happens soon.
I just saw this musical called The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The musical was pretty entertaining and funny… but one part really stuck out in my mind. In the play there is this Asian girl who is a spelling wiz. During the bee, while she is trying to spell “camouflage”, she breaks into song and dance about how she is always first at everything… she knows 6 (not 5) different languages, does fencing, plays the piano… and then all the sudden she decides to mess up the word (even though she obviously knows it). How strange is that?
Anyway, it got me thinking how a lot of Asians are pushed by their parents to be the best at everything. I mean, I personally was pushed to be the best academically, musically, and language-lly; and I, of course, rejected two of the three. In the end, though, is being the best really what makes people happy. My guess is that it really doesn’t. Why is it that people put so much emphasis on being successful and so little emphasis on being happy in life?
So anyway, the story ends up that the Asian girl goes on to write a book entitled “How to achieve less than expected” and it of course sells less than expected… but she is happy.