After watching the movie Groundhogs Day on February 2 and then watching it again once each day for the five days following February 2 (as is my groundhogs day tradition), I had an epiphany. In the movie, Bill Murphy learns to find the extraordinary within the ordinary when he is forced to relive groundhogs day over and over. The lesson of the movie was that every day is extraordinary when you approach it with the right mindset. Thinking about the aforementioned lesson and about Dr. Sexson's recent discussions on the nature of comedy and tragedy, I had an epiphany.
Are you ready to hear it? Here it comes; tragedy and comedy are the same thing.
Every day presents the possibility of comedy or tragedy depending on how we react to the events that are outside our control.
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I don't know if comedy and tragedy are the dame thing per se. I think I'd submit that situations in and of themselves can be seen as either comic or tragic. Which I guess maybe does mean that they're the same thing, so never mind.
Or, that in any event, the line between comedy and tragedy can often be very thin.
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