Moments of Madness

Well, it's all the same news at the moment.. a season of mass shootings. We are hitting one per day at the moment.

And another sensitive actor takes his life. I didn't know Lee Thompson Young till I saw the news today, but he died a month ago.

Not drug addled and unemployed, but with a part in a major series.

He was in another major series a few years ago called Flash Forward.

This was a sci-fi series. (At the time, I tried the first episode but got bored. Others must have agreed as it was cancelled pretty quickly).

It messed around with time and characters could flash backwards and forwards.

His character was apparently destined to commit a terrible deed, and try to figure out desperately if there was any way he could change these events.

It's a familiar staple of the time travel plot.

But Young spoke about the role he played at the time...

"...everything in everyone else's flash forward seemed to be coming true, step-by-step. He was unable to sleep at night. He was depressed, frustrated, angry. He felt powerless. And, in the end, he finally decided that this is how he could change that".

His character commits suicide by jumping off a bridge to prevent the event happening.

Young, it appears, shot himself in the head.

There is a time for sensitivity, and a time for resilience.

A time to open the doors, and a time to slam shut.

People will try to open your doors for you. But they are your doors. 

There is no key.

Because. They. Are. Your. Doors.

No one opens them but you.

I wonder how responsibly the acting teachers assess the resilience of their students.

Whether Stanislavsky was deluded.

And how much method...is madness.