{"id":752,"date":"2006-04-26T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/a-directors-prayer\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T08:13:54","slug":"a-directors-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/a-directors-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Directors Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I am not struggling,<br \/>\nis there no creative process ?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIf I am not exploring,<br \/>\nis there no discovery  ?<br \/>\nand is it discovery I am looking for<br \/>\nor is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow<br \/>\njust another deeper,<br \/>\nmore profound,<br \/>\nmore relevant question ?<br \/>\nIf I am not in angst with the script,<br \/>\nare my characters not in angst with themselves ?<br \/>\nam I the director, another character in angst ?<br \/>\nCan I live in the story ?<br \/>\nCan I both create a world, and then step into it myself ?<br \/>\nWho am I in this film ?<br \/>\nThe last four days have been easier<br \/>\nI finished on time<br \/>\nI have not been torn apart<br \/>\nis something going wrong ?<br \/>\nhave I lost my passion ?<br \/>\nor am I just well prepared<br \/>\nam I too prepared ?<br \/>\nam I not being organic ?<br \/>\nplease, can I continue to live on the edge  ?<br \/>\nto explore on the edge<br \/>\nplease,<br \/>\nlet me be a sail whipped around in the wind<br \/>\nlet the symphony engulf me<br \/>\nand please<br \/>\ncan it be totally unpredictable  ?<br \/>\nand let every moment be a question<br \/>\nwhere every thought is dispersed<br \/>\nand a new one rushes in to fill the vaccum<br \/>\nPlease do not let me become a prisoner<br \/>\nof my knowledge<br \/>\nof career<br \/>\nof a job<br \/>\nof my desire<br \/>\nto please<br \/>\nof my need<br \/>\nto be appreciated<br \/>\nshekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I am not struggling, is there no creative process ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-age-diary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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