C I P R I A N I

Maybe it’s me or my system or my internet connection but as I was attempting to to create the previous post, writing an entry to accompany the video was proving rather difficult. I would type and the little “rainbow” wheel kept spinning to my frustration. I enjoy the ease of typing quickly on a computer and find myself downright angry when things don’t function properly. The amount of expletives that spew forth from my mouth are not unlike a typical episode of The Sopranos, which I began to reference in the previous entry and will now continue…

In revisiting the series and finding that title track caught in my mind, I began to be curious about what it would be like to see the song performed live and, in this internet age, one is able to simply search and very often find. Literally just a few seconds after the thought popped into my head I found the clip below on YouTube. We have lived in this age of instant gratification for quite sometime now, but this is surreal, ridiculous and perhaps too much.

I believe there is a value to patience. One, of course, can be too patient. But I believe for the most part, in the right doses, patience appeals to our better angels and makes for better work as well as better people.

Now this might seem contradictory coming from someone that opens the argument by complaining that this site wasn’t displaying my typing fast enough, but I assure you, it indeed was too slow. Something was wrong.

…And yet, speed, or rather, how long something is taking, how much patience one needs, how long is too long, is often in the eye of the beholder. However, when one finds the release of that arrival or discovery or climax or…whatever you were waiting for, there is a bliss to that. And if waiting is eliminated, so is that release? In its simplest terms, a story is a beginning, a middle and an end and life mimics this (or vice versa). Now as things become rushed and instant and we slowly (or quickly) lose the middle, how much further behind are the beginnings and the endings?