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Godot? You said?

Prompt:
What comes to mind when you hear "Waiting for Godot"?

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Hahaha! I remember my uncle making fun of this play. Is Godot coming or not? When will he come? Gosh, he ain't coming! What'll we do, now? Oh, wait some more. He is coming! He has to be coming!

At the time, some said Godot was the synonym for 'God' however, I tend to differ. God isn't that wishy washy with His decisions...unlike a certain politician we all know.

Now, back to Godot! In this play by Beckett, two guys--named Estragon and Vladimir--meet by a tree at dusk. And here starts the weirdness. Why would these two men meet by a tree at dusk? Btw, being in my teens, I had, at the time, thought Estragon was another word for estrogen, but I was wrong. If I weren't, the play would be more fun, come to think of it.

But I digress. Again! Coming back to that Godot character, his second name is probably "Absurd" since the whole play seemed to be. But this was okay, then, for during the late 1950s,anything absurd was hailed as the smartest thing ever created. In the same vein, the idea of the absurd seems to rule the entire play. And it pained me to see online that Broadway would be showing it again this fall in 2025, if World War III doesn't get us all, by then.

"Waiting for Godot will begin previews at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on September 13, 2025."
No wonder there's that number 13 in there, somewhere.

Maybe, with all the waiting and absurdity surrounding our world, we are all trying to give meaning to the meaningless itself.