In The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique, there is a passage (translated):
“An actor must also keep in mind how the script ends and try to earn the right, scene by scene, to arrive at that ending. If the script ends with you finding happiness with another person, every scene, in one form or another, must be devoted to pursuing love. If the script ends with separation, then you must earn the right to part.”
Notice: “every scene,” not “most” or “some.” The character’s pull toward the desired state runs through his entire life.
Does the actor’s attitude apply to you? Take, for example, your company, profession, passion, occupation, in short, your Work.
Today is a new scene that is taking you somewhere. The only question is where. If there is not even a vague guess, then there are no criteria of “good and evil.” Events seem to happen on their own.
There is not even a chance to wake up in time and change something. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate,” Carl Jung wrote.
It is different if, out of the infinity of possible futures, you have chosen state X. Even if its contours are still vague. And it is hard to believe that it is achievable. In fact, you may have no idea “how.”
What matters is something else: now you have a reference point. In ancient times, people sailed into the unknown seas and oceans with one thing to guide them: the stars.
Did they drift off course? Sure. Did they sometimes get lost? Yes, especially in storms and on foggy nights. But then they found their star again.
Even if your reference point is very far away, keeping it in sight already transforms hostile chaos into a cosmos in which you can and want to live.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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