[ Improv ]

I can’t properly attribute it because I can’t recall where I read or heard the concept of ‘life is improvisation’. 

It’s stuck with me, though, because I tend towards schedules and structure and lists and processes, with goals and outcomes.

It’s stuck with me, because as the song goes, there’s “no dress rehearsal, this is our life”*. 

But of course, life is one big improvisation.  Things don’t always go to plan.  Perhaps they rarely do. We can have plans and structure, but we’re also constantly improvising.  And as I read or heard, wherever it was, good improvisation needs practise too.

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*(I can and will credit that song lyric, it’s from “Ahead by a Century”, Tragically Hip.  …. and I’d better, because any Canadian Hip fans out there will call me on it.).