Act 1

Scene 1

 

A bedsit in South London, its Sunday morning 9:00 am

 Hey you awake as yet?

No I am still asleep,

Thought you might be

Anyway what do you want to do?

I don’t know do I, what we do every Sunday

Which is?

Absolutely nothing

Think of something to do then

I can’t, remember I’m still not awake

Wake up then

Why, nothing to do is there.

Well I am making breakfast, do you want some?

I ‘ll get you a coffee from downstairs if you want

Wait I’ll come with you, give us a minute

 

 

Scene 2

 

Coffee Shop, 10:00 am

 

Good morning, what will it be?

I’ll have a Café latte, make it a large one.

What about you, I don’t know yet,

When will you know?

I just don’t know what I want

Look he is waiting for your order

Okay I ‘ll have the same as you,

Give me a large café latte

Anything else, something to eat maybe?

Ok I’ll have a Croissant,

You probably want the same, make that two

Croissants.

Wait a minute I did not say I wanted a croissant

Its ok I’ll have two croissants.

Sit down I will bring your order to you.

Sits near the window looking out onto the street

Talk to me, about what?

What do you want to do for the rest of the day?

I don’t know; let me finish my coffee first.

15 minutes later

 

Can we talk now, ok what is it?

Does it have to be something in particular?

Come on now, how long have we been together?

You don’t even remember that

This relationship if you want to call it that is going nowhere

Can we discuss this somewhere else.

Stop trying to avoid the issue

I am not avoiding the issue; just want to talk about it somewhere else and not in a public place.

Ok let’s go then, back up to the flat?

No lets go to the park.

 

Act 2

Scene 1

 

The Park , two or three people walking their dogs , apart from that fairly quite Sunday morning ,it now around 11:00 am.

Church bells can be heard in the distance.

 

Where do you want to sit ?

Lets just walk

Right you were saying something earlier

About our relationship , we have been together now

For six months , and you believe things are not going that well

It’s not just that ,its life in general , there doesn’t ,seem to be a point to it .

I think you are just suffering from depression , go see the Doctor he’ll prescribe you something .

Then what ?

Maybe you need to take something up like a hobby or a sport

Those are just things to take your mind off the boredom of life

Have you thought about religion or spirituality , maybe that’s what’s missing   from your life.

Or how about philosophy , start reading and exploring ,go to the library see what you can find .

Or join a club .

Think about it

I am glad you are around do give me such good advice

They hear a sudden noise ,a sort of cracking noise coming from

A tree they are walking past .

What just happened , oh my god

Can someone help us (shouting) , a tree branch just fell on top of us

Tries to move the branch but is too heavy , does not know

What to do , friend is still conscious but barely.

 

I can’t really move and I don’t see anyone around .

Eh ,eh ,what happened ,oh no ,we seem to be pinned to the ground .

Are you hurt , what do you think , yes I am , I think

I might have a broken leg

What about you I am ok so far no broken bones .

The only advantage of being fat I suppose.

What do you mean .

You never said I was fat before

Besides you would be screaming with pain right about now if your leg were broken.

Can I get some sympathy at least , sympathy you mean pity.

Why am I not in the same situation as you ?

Hey look I can see a dog coming this way , here boy

Here boy , go get some help , go on

What you think that dog is some kind of wonder dog ?

Oh what is it doing no ,shoo go away .

He he he its not funny now I stink of dog pee.

As if my situations wasn’t bad enough.

You mean our situation .

Yeah but a dog didn’t ,Just pee on your leg.

Things could be a lot worse you know , it could just start to rain.

Why did you check the weather before you left the bedsit.

No I am just saying it could be a possibility, or just one of the possibilities .

Oh stop it, will you , you should try to be optimistic , I am sure someone will find us and help us out .

 

 

Scene 2

 

A gang of lads looking to do some mischief

Wonder onto our pair of unfortunate friends

 

Hey look what I found

And they stink too ,

What happened dogs been peeing on you two

Ha ha ha ha .

Can you help us please we are stuck ,can you get this branch off

We can see that but why should we ,

What do you say lads shall we help these loser’s .

Naw we don’t want to get our hands dirty , lets go

Hey wait at least get someone to help us .

Ok you got any money on you , you give us some money and we

Will get you some help ,or better we will call 999.

Neither of us can actually reach our wallets as you can see

Ok we will relieve you of them then, get their wallets lads

Now don’t struggle too much .(he he he)

Easy pickings what do you think lads.

Lets go .

Hey wait you can’t do that , help us come on you got what you wanted .

Great now things are getting bad to worse .

You were saying about sympathy , look at this

You get the opposite , no one cares anymore .

What is happening to us as a society ,

Where have you been for the last 50 years or more, its being going down hill ,ever since the end of the 2nd World War

That’s my answer to your optimisms, its foolish to be optimistic .

Its not that it’s their lack of morality

But what is morality ?

Now that people no longer believe in God ,but have their own little gods (desires).

This is the result of the current situation of this society

People are helpless or feel that way , look at our current situation

Does it not reflect the current situation prevalent in our society.

Are we not tied and bound , are we really free ?

What are these ties and bonds ?

You have to step outside the box to see it as an observer

People are in such a situation that they no longer have the time to think and reflect .

It’s get up in the morning ,have breakfast go out to work ,work all day ,by the time you come back you have hardly anytime but to watch TV and have you dinner ,go to bed and then the cycle starts again.

If you are lucky or high enough up the ladder you don’t have to work weekends.

You get you news feed from the TV , you get you information from a search engine.

It’s the herd mentality at work here.

One must analyze and think about what is really going on

Not just take what at face value what you are being told by the media.

Why do you trust it ?

Why should you trust it ?

Then what else is left to trust

Just yourself.

You and I and everyone else are individuals ,we are not a collective, this idea that the actions of a sub-group of individual’s makes everyone from the larger group responsible and guilty is a wrong and bigoted idea.

The sub-group in question ,I would label as being nihilistic

In nature, Islamic nihilists .

What is a nihilist you may now ask ?

In this case it is someone who is against life and is anti-life

Majority of these people have given up on life and see no value in it, they seek an answer and find it in this form of radical Islam, and they seek a quick way out a reason to die.

They are feed up of the distractions that this world is offering for it is not a cure but a temporary distraction an illusion .

I talking about things like watching sports , movies or other physical pursuits

Which in the end have no real value, in terms of progress

And growth of the individual both mentally and spiritually

Don’t get me wrong , religion and spirituality are two different things , they are related but are not the same.

Spirituality involves cultivating oneself ,to the point of being able to control ones desires and thoughts ,

So that you are in control of you emotions and yourself.

For pursing ones desires to the extreme leads to nihilism.

To that feeling of emptiness ,to that place where nothing holds value and life seems to be meaningless.

That is not a good place to be.

 

To give in to your desires is weakness and leads to a downward spiral , where does it end , when the senses have become blunt and the joy once leading to ecstasy has no effect

For that is what happens, you become rich but does it in the end make you happy ?

Look at the number of suicides among the rich and famous

Look at the number of drug addicts and those needing rehab for alcohol abuse , again a higher number of these are found among this group.

The other groups are those who are at the bottom of the pile.

Same issues , drug addiction and alcohol abuse , its nihilism

What else plagues this society .

There is no more passion for life ,its long gone.

All well and good but this is just ideas ,what can be done on a practical level ?

What is the cure ?

The cure is to engage everyone in Philosophical debates and in philosophy in general , starting from a young age , engage them in thinking and reasoning ,rationally and logically

Even though philosophy does not have all the answers it still develops a persons thinking.

Helps to free a person from this slave mentality.

 

Dog Walker 1: What is it boy , what have you found (dog barking)

Oh my god , I will call 999 and get some help

Hey you over here can you give us a hand .

Dog Walker 2 : I don’t think we should try to move the branch, they might have internal injuries or broken bones , have you called the Fire brigade and the ambulance.

Dog Walker 1: Yes

Here they come , hang on in there .

 To be continued …….

 

Bibliography
The Will to Power – Friedrich Nietzsche