Live Theater Affirms Role of Dialogues in Life

One of my New Year's resolutions for 2009 is to attend live-theater performances more often.

Those live-theater stage performances promulgate the crucial outlook that the in-person conversations and in-person dialogues of life are central to one's own -- and other individuals' --- overall quality of life and happiness.

That theme is particularly important in an era when many people regard the "chat rooms" of Internet websites ("chat rooms" that often occur in a solitudinous and anonymous context for the web browser sitting in front of a computer, with his "chat" often consisting of nothing more than sentence fragments and his latest proud profanities) as "my favorite form of dialogue I have with others."

In fact, there is no substitute for a warm and sublimely friendly facial expression and congenial in-person conversation with another human being that occurs in a strictly-mutual-consent context. There is no substitute for mutual-consent and in-person human companionship and in-person human intimacy, whether that intimacy be strictly platonic in nature or, in rare cases, a mutual-consent romantic involvement.