An act of... what exactly WAS that, Kate?

But whatever it was, it was an act.
Even worse: a badly acted act.

I know: I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own four eyes (my un-tinted contacts, in case you're wondering)... Or should I say, heard it?

Kate Winslet - lately a surprisingly recurrent guest of this bloggy - won two Golden Globe awards the other night.

Impressive. And well deserved, no doubt.

Well, I certainly thought so... until I heard, and then saw, her by now infamous acceptance speech at the ceremony.

Not only was it not "off the cuff", as she purported it to be - it was the worst case of cringeworthy "ham", of shrill histrionics I've EVER seen, at least from such a prestigious performer.
(OK, maybe the second worst, closely following Laurence Olivier's hair-rising impersonation of Zeus with a bad headache during a famous WW II moral-boosting stage appearance. I'll post a link to a video of it, if I find one.)

I'll analyse it for you, frame by frame, expression by expression, tone by tone, if need be.
Gladly!

Just not today.
I have a really bad headache right now - and I am not even Zeus...

You - Reality = ?

This is one of the most important questions you'll ever be asked.

(Yes, it sounds pompous; it sounds worse than pompous, if you ask me. Who cares? It's still true.)

Go outside - not mandatory, but helpful - and take a walk.

Or, if you are well aware of, and connected to, the You who does the gathering, processing, interpreting of reality data, just stay wherever you are right now.

What is important is that the surroundings you're seeing or feeling are intimately familiar to you.

Now, just for the sake of the argument, imagine that all you're seeing really is like a painted veil of sorts, a flimsy curtain concealing a mighty stage (you've seen The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, right?); or an onion with many peels.

If that surface - what you're seeing around you, your Reality, all there is - were ripped apart, if it broke, if it melted away...

WHAT DO YOU SEE APPEAR?

This is not a philosophical (i.e. general) question.

It is a question addressed specifically to you; and only you - the deep-seed You - can answer it.

Carry it around with you for as long as you want or need.

More on this some other time.