Try To Read This In Song

I think it would be cool if life was a musical. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to burst into song any time you were having an emotional moment without getting weird looks from people on the subway? Not to mention the background music, performed by an invisible orchestra. Or more accurately, an orchestra you're supposed to pretend isn't there. Or even more accurately, a CD, because your school's music department sucks.

And then there's the choreography! Wouldn't you just love to see everybody in the cafeteria start dancing on the tables for the big ensemble number? And that weird kid in the corner gets his own solo! The possibilities are endless! Well, at least until the budget runs out and you don't have enough money to pay somebody to paint the backgrounds for you, in which case you'll just have to do it yourself and hope nobody notices that you have no artistic ability. "It's an abstract play now!"

Of course, there are the downsides. I think we might all get tired of wearing makeup all the time. And if show business is anything to go by, ugly people don't exist, so some of your friends might spontaneously disappear. And regardless of the actual content of your life, somebody's going to have to find a way to shoehorn a romantic subplot in there.

But hey, at least it would be better than living in an action movie.