Acting Without the Drama

April 27, 2009.  Tomorrow’s a big day for our company.  We’re meeting with a production company that we may end up partnering with to get our first show on television.  Heady stuff, right?

It’s also in the same building as the company for which I worked for the last five years.  The company I left to co-found our production company.  And not on the best of terms.

I’ve always had this desire to read meaning into the smallest of things, so you can see how I would just go nuts about that little tidbit.

There’s a problem with looking for signs, though.  They build things up in your mind.  Things that start out being important, profound even, become epic.  Something out of a novel.  Legendary.

Who or what can live up to that kind of set-up?  Even if the meeting goes swimmingly, there’s no way for it to match the expectation of a legend.  By seeking for signs thatl say that this one is THE ONE, I’m making sure that the outcome will be disappointing, no matter what the actual outcome is.

So, this time, I’d like to just look at this coincidence as… well, a coincidence.  Interesting information.  It’s kinda cool, but that’s what it is.  Kinda cool.  Not a sign.  Not an indicator of surefire success.  Not a gleaming beacon of heavenly guidance.

Now, if things do go really well, you can bet your butt that I’ll be telling that story to everyone that will listen.  But that’s a story for another time. 

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