Applauding The Flaws

Unlike a blog, such as this, life doesn’t have an edit button. We can’t wipe out the last few minutes and re-type them. 

Which means that our mistakes, our flaws, and our bad sense of timing, are always a part of the narrative. 

Maybe that’s why a live performance has something extra about it. More so than a recording, in which all the fluffs can be extinguished. Live, it can all go wrong. And both the audience and the performer know it. 

Maybe that’s where the applause comes from, when, amazingly, it all goes beautifully right. Or even, sometimes, because of the rough around the edges.