After listening to an episode of This American Life on Fiasco where we hear different stories about things that go horribly wrong was almost comforting. I’m notorious for trying to balance too many things at once and often times feel like I’m a complete mess. Somehow listening to others struggle which feels somewhat sadistic, makes me feel better.
There is a story about a production of Peter Pan and we hear about the many things that go wrong. The props seem to be defective, accidents resulting in the bodily harm of the audience takes places, and it ends with fire department arriving. To overcome these obstacles a significant amount of improvisation needs to take place, and it needs to be done well. While listening to the unfortunate outcome of the production, somewhere along the way I began to put myself in their position. There’s a portion of the story where we hear about an issue where Wendy needs to attach a kite to herself to fly away. The flying apparatus people can’t seem to get the kite close enough to her and she has to step into the “water”, contradicting her fear. There’s another part where Tinker Bell comes on stage, and Tinker Bell is portrayed as a light bulb, literally. In moments like these there’s an element of bad luck, but part of me wonders if the director did this to him/herself. Then I began to connect this idea of people “bringing things unto themselves”. As I declared earlier, I try to balance many, possibly too many, things at one. However, that was my decision. After listening to this audio recording I began to explore how much of the stress and chaos in our lives is self inflicted. 
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