Like Augustine — Scene 2
[Camera follows Simon's car from the street as it pulls into a driveway, turns left, and parks. As he parks, the camera pans 180 degrees to the right, focusing on a storefront, topped with a sign reading "The Shepherd's Shoppe" and then continues the circle to find Simon exiting his car. The camera zooms in on him as he begins walking through the parking lot, keeping him on the left of the screen as the rest of the screen focuses on the busyness of the street behind him and the emptiness of the parking lot around him. It's about 5 PM on a autumn day, so the darkness has begun to creep into the sky.]
Simon: [not looking into the camera, but wistfully gazing in the open sky as he mumbles to himself and strolls around the parking lot] I’m not even sure why I’m here right now. I don’t want to be here, but I just feel kinda stuck here. Where’s here? This store, where I’ve worked for 6 years now. Why else would I feel stuck here? I guess that would be why I feel stuck, but I also realize that I’m the one who keeps me stuck here. Of course, if I knew a way out, I would think that I’d have taken that way out by now. But I haven’t and that’s my problem. I still feel connected to this place for positive reasons, very positive ones. Here’s the issue at hand though — I think that most days, the negatives outweigh the positives in terms of number and severity of the issues at hand, but I’m still here. What few positives I can grasp onto keep me in a place that I don’t quite like too much. Why am I here? Seriously….
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