Roles

Have you ever had one of those times where you wake up and can't get back to sleep? That's what is going on here. It is 3:45 a.m. on a Thursday morning, I can't get back to sleep and I find myself thinking about Clint Eastwood so I thought I would blog about it. I know, kind of strange.

I have been thinking about the career of this great actor as I try to fall back to sleep and I keep thinking about all of the different roles that he has played throughout his career. He's played a TV cowboy on the show Rawhide, a cowboy on the big screen in movies such as The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven. He made movies along the way like Every Which Way But Loose and Honkey Tonk Man to others like the Dirty Harry movies, In The Line Of Fire, Blood Work, Absolute Power, Gran Torino and The Bridges of Madison County just to name a few.

Depending on who you are and when you grew up, you may think of the role on Rawhide whenever you hear the name Clint Eastwood mentioned. Maybe you are a bit younger and think of the Dirty Harry roles or even younger still and think of one of his more recent roles when you hear his name mentioned. Now, I don't know Clint Eastwood and have never heard him talk about his different roles, but my guess is that there are some roles that he is very proud of and others that he may have wished he passed on. But, for better or for worse, they are the roles that he has chosen. It would be a shame for people to think only of Every Which Way But Loose or Honkey Tonk Man when the name Clint Eastwood is mentioned, but it is a possibility that there are people out there that think about those roles when they hear his name because that is there only experience watching a Clint Eastwood movie.

My point, I guess, is that we have to choose our roles in life wisely. Looking back, there are roles that I wish I had not played and others that I am very proud of being a part of. To some people, I will always be thought of one way because that is their only experience with me. To others, I may be thought of totally differently because they know me from who I am today. I can't change the roles that I have had in the past, but hopefully I will choose wisely for the ones in the present and in the future.

I don't know if that makes any sense or not? I woke up early and thought maybe by blogging about what I was thinking that it would clear my mind and help me get back to sleep. For the record, when I hear the name Clint Eastwood, I think Dirty Harry.