Limelight

"Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.' 
Cavalero

Friends, nothing could be truer.
For Life is rather wonderful, full of awe and amazement if one just steps aside the ill perceptions and accepts the unfolding of events as an active player; rather than being a mindless spectator, someone who expects events to come to him and drag him out in a sort directionless raft that may actually take the poor sod anywhere worth going. 
The chances to take life's paramount nature are all there.
At every turn, in each second, with each breath.
We might let pass a few but soon, for sure another will definitely  ensue. And the true wonder of this little spectacle of chances is that the act that can make a difference can take place early on or just before your very last breath, with a kind of poetic justice that is written like the very last footnote that arranges all the previous actions up to the point in such a way that one's perception is changed, and what seemed to be a series of seamless unrelated events finally holds meaning.  

And all it takes is...

Courage to act
Imagination to know how to
Dough or luck to apply it when it needs to

For my part, I know that I have missed so many twists and turns in my life to make a difference, but I cannot ignore the load of opportunities that to this day I have grabbed the best way I could. 
Our actions, they are all up for interpretation, depending of the beholder. Trust me that they can always be played for better or worse, and perceived the same or inversely.  
But the beauty of if it all, is that even though those opportunities happen once... New opportunities will soon appear, prompting fresh results, unthinkable possibilities leading you to new and unfolding venues.  
For all that is worth, the limelight of life is comprised with right performance in the right time. 
It is the true action that needs to take place, either by word, silence, or momentum. 
The limelight will be remembered for the right chance taken by the performer.
The unique nature of how wonderful life can truly be is measured by the timing it takes to enjoy the right moment fully. 
And the right moment is now, with each breath, with each second, with each page turning.
So I dare you all, to rise for the moment that is now and take this life with the joy and sorrow that the event inspires you, but live that emotion fully because the opportunity is before you right now.

Thank you Mr. Chaplin for this lesson on humanity, through your own Limelight that inspired these simple but heartfelt words.