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| A Warm Gun | |||
| Writers use a technique called foreshadowing as a way to resolve a plot and bring about the climax of a story. Some writers also call this tool "hiding the gun" coined after Anton Chekhov's famous play, The Seagull, where a character leaves a loaded gun on the table in the opening act. For the rest of the play the audience is left waiting for the gun as a means for resolution. | |||
| Not only is the gun used as a plot resolution device, but it is also represents a choice(s), and therein lies the subsequent consequence. And if you life was made into a full-length feature film, how would the choices of your past effect the way your movie ends, sequel pending or not? | |||
| The question that keeps me up at night is, what is the "gun"in my past that will bring this plot to a quick and resolute end? Sure, life can be rather anti-climatic, but we all have at least one smoking gun; something from the past that we completely forgot about, but often times will affect our disposition- or even lead to our demise. Even inevitable, genetic influenced diseases like heart disease, Alzheimer's, or cancer are heavily influenced by lifestyle choices. Though, I am hoping for a more theatric death. | |||
| For me, will the gun be the sleeping blanket I used as a kid, resulting in premature death by melanoma and/or leukemia? Perhaps subtlety will be in mind when my lungs collapse from emphysema from all the cigarettes people are telling me I shouldn't smoke. Maybe it will be something boring like lymphatic cancer from all of the shitty, microwavable processed foods I eat on a frequent basis. Or maybe something suspenseful like being caught up with and bludgeoned to death by someone I've wronged in the past. | |||
| However it happens, the choices we make interlace with the inevitable Big Sleep. And the story of our lives becomes the vehicle for some shitty sitcom, or rolled into one coming of age box office hit...if you're lucky. No sequel. | |||
| Roll credits. | |||