The Rattle
BY NICK MARSHALL, GILBERT, USA - You know that game Yahtzee? Y'know the one with all the dice in the cup, shake the cup and the dice rattle about and you pour them out, they tumble and stop and you look at what you've rolled out, and voila? Well, the dice in the cup, the vexing rattling, that's my head now. That is the stage of the game I'm on now. There are so many things going on with this project and my life that my head aches sometimes. But even though there is some suffering, I have faith that I will eventually and progressively advance to the next stage in the game. And in Yahtzee, you go through this process many times, the cup, the rattle, the roll and the stop, and then at the end you count up your score. But, no matter what the score on this project, it can be nothing but a success!
But to put all analogies aside, I feel very honored and lucky to be involved in something like this. I know it will be hard, nerve-racking, frustrating, physically exhausting, mentally exhausting, and a million other things, but the list of positive things to experience far overshadows the negative. When I start to think about the positives of being in Zambia and making this film, it is very hard to even see the negatives, hard to contemplate there are negatives, hard to imagine anything going wrong. But I thought we were thinking of the positives?
I will be documenting all my experiences in Zambia on this blog and in a notebook that I will bring along as well. I will try to get it all down and hopefully most onto this blog. I am not on the roll yet, but very soon I think I will get past the rattle and just try to keep up with the momentum.