it's the eve of the release of The Second Chance. i'm just now getting home from a long journey that took me from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Cincinnati, Ohio, back to Los Angeles, on to a redeye flight into New York (the first flight allowed back into the blizzard), and home to Nashville for one evening before i board a flight to Orlando, Florida in a few hours.
my shoulder hurts. i think i've been sleeping wrong--when i get the chance to sleep, that is.
but i'm not complaining in the least bit. i was on-line chatting last night with friends from around the country at HBCUConnect.com and someone was asking me how it felt to live a dream.
sometimes, i ask myself that same question, because the feeling is so...dreamlike.
ever had one of those moments where you just stopped and looked at the world around you, looked at the bustling people, the wind weaving through the trees, animals playing, children laughing, rain coming down, and just wondered "What does all this really mean?"
for me, it puts me into a state that makes me think of the Matrix movies: what if we're dreaming all this reality we exist in?
what if we all really live in Heaven, and when we sleep, we dream of a life on earth? a dream of struggle, of overcoming obstacles, of living and dying, of making a way out of no way; a dream of loves ventured and loves lost. what if this were all a dream?
i continually come to the conclusion that, if this is a dream, then so be it. as tough as life is at times, if i'm sleeping in Heaven right now, then when i wake up, i'll appreciate it that much more because of what i'm going through in the dreamworld.
so now, The Second Chance is a good dream fulfilled. i couldn't have asked for a better role to start out with (http://www.jeffobafemicarr.com/messageboard/index.php for discussion on that one) and i'm still young enough (relatively speaking, that is) to enjoy what it's like to work in a field i love. i want to keep pushing this life forward and taking on bigger and better things, hopefully opening the door to people who are looking for the opportunity and eager to make things happen.
i'd talk longer about some things, but i'll hop back on later. the barber to the stars, Keno Hill, has arrived and promises to keep me from looking too jacked up--at least about the head. anything else would require surgery and i don't like that side of Hollywood, so i'll just have to hang on to what i got given to me in the womb.
i'm outta here for now. we'll see some of you in Orlando, and i'll be back in the ville on Thursday for an appearance on "Talk of The Town" before the world Premiere that evening. my daughter is my date and we are BOTH excited. we may go check out the movie together on Friday with the rest of the nation. if you see us out, holla at us. let a brotha hold 50 cents. ;-)
later on
joc
