Last night I finally I got to experience the show I have been waiting to see for years. An amazing sensory overload that I am trying to come up with words to even describe. This blog will fail completely. There are no words to describe it.
A mixture of humor, facts, lights, sounds, and even smells to wake up the mind and body.
We go through our daily lives almost numb. Everything is routine, or becomes routine. The few who have a differing thought process many times become overwhelmed, feel out of place. In taking my children to the park my mind goes through so many thoughts. What kind of tree is that? How many birds do I hear? Where did they migrate from? What is the molecular structure of the equipment my children are playing on? What skills are they developing doing simple tasks here? How quickly does the sound of my children's laughter move from their mouths to my ears? The list goes on.
This makes my mind feel overwhelmed, full, heavy. However, I am awake. Alert. Observing. Learning. THINKING!
Watching the Blue Man Group last night allowed me ninety minutes of feeling "normal" in my thought process. This show attempts to get the audience to think. Process. Observe. Hopefully the audience leaves more in tuned and observant of the world around them. With a desire to interact.
A show about social conformity, breaking or straying from mainstream, a point I wonder if many see. Or if in my own mind I am over thinking it. Pictures of the DNA structure are shown on the drop screen at one point in time. As I watch the silent blue men, I couldn't help but realize we are all connected. We all are humans. Yet we conform, and sometimes stray from main stream. How do we treat others as they show their individualism? Do we place upon them peer pressure hoping they step back in line? Do we eventually let it go and just accept the difference?
The audience sets back and watches these "Blue Men" observe, play, learn, as children. Curiosity is obvious in their body language. Engaging the audience to hopefully feel the same new wonder and excitement. We should look at our world around us everyday the same way. Curiosity. A desire to take in and learn. To take what we do not know and fear, and educate ourselves.
Social conformity. Individuality. Curiosity. Observation. Interaction. Engage your brain. Acceptance. Renewed sense of awareness. These are just the few words that I can use to describe the experience of this show.
Perhaps though, it is just a funny show that makes people laugh. You do get out of something what you put into it. So today, put into life exactly what you want to get out of it.
if you do something different you will be stared at by the others untill you do it like they do it. but in some cases if you do it long enough they will start doing it like you. in any case others are much more willing to help you become like them then to change themselfs to become like you. but being unique for long is hard to do.
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