the final show

November 9, 2003
12:46 am

The Final Show

People say it’s a phase. Experts termed it clinical depression. Gen-Xers call it the quarter-life crisis. A friend attests that it’s existential dilemma. She probably got that from the books she has read - all written by those experts.

I do not know what to call it.

All I know is that I would never wish this for anyone else.

I have stepped into a movie screen. The darkness of the theatre fades behind me as I walk into a scene. Not long after, I find that the movie is about my lif...