When the waiter casually asked us how we were today, he
wasn’t at all prepared when I announced “Actually we’re all emotionally drained
from the opera we just left.”
The table exploded into one big laugh, no one more than
me. Save the waiter, who took
about 30 seconds to recover.
Clearly he’d not gotten this response before. But he got back at me, repeatedly teasing me for the rest of
our lunch. Not a problem. I love to laugh.
It occurred to me later that probably no one needed that
laugh as much as me. I am
definitely what you call “the sensitive one”. I feel things deeply and was truly spent after that amazing
opera. Verdi’s Traviata is such a
wrenching mess of a love story.
Like opera always is. And
like life can be, though gratefully not so dramatically.
Comedians are generally very sensitive people. They are the ones who feel things the
deepest, need the cathartic release the most, and so make the laughter happen.
I definitely needed to laugh after that amazingly powerful
Traviata.*
*Simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera.
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