Mason Says

A few months ago, the TNT network began airing promos for a new show called Men of a Certain Age. I was intrigued, not so much by the cobbled together cast, but by what appeared to be the concept behind it. The show premiered the other night and I caught enough of it to confirm my hunch and to conclude that I should blog about it, the underlying premise that is, as the show itself was just okay. The main characters, played by Ray Ramono, Andre Braugher (pictured to the left) and Scott Bakula, are former college buddies who took varying career paths, but have all found themselves in full mid-life crisis mode. Personally, I’m not there yet and I’m hoping to take the beltway around it as I approach that time of my life. But for these guys, the middle age meltdown is in motion.

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Continued: The idea of waking up from a long hibernation of denial and realizing things didn’t go well scares the hell out of me – and by “things” I mean my life. We know how this plays out. Too many men shrink from any remote measure of greatness only to be left with a shriveled up ego that their wives, kids and bosses use as doormats. We all know a few.

The way I see it men (and women for that matter) have three acts to their lives, much like a screenplay. The first act is birth to 29, where you discover and define yourself, or at least try. The second act is age 30 to 59 where make you make your mark, or at least try. The third act is from 60 until departure where you pass the torch and enjoy the fruits of your labor. If all goes well, all goes well. If it doesn’t, you can throw that script out the window and get busy with the re-writes or give up, which is the equivalent of shutting down production altogether. I suggest the re-rewrites. One


The Takeaways:
1. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind. – George Washington Carver

2. Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill


The Promo. Roll Tape.



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