"I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored"
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Restlessness gets framed as a virtue when you can monetize it, and Trisha Goddard’s line lands because it’s half confession, half survival strategy. “Oh God, now what?” isn’t just mild anxiety; it’s the private moment after a public moment, when the lights go down and the identity you’ve been performing needs its next script. Coming from an entertainer who built a career on momentum and reinvention, the sentence reads like backstage truth: the show ends, the audience disperses, and the mind starts scanning for the next arena in which to be necessary.
The key word is “have.” This isn’t curiosity; it’s compulsion. She’s not saying she likes plans, she’s saying plans keep her from something worse: boredom as emotional free fall. In entertainment culture, boredom isn’t quaint idleness - it’s irrelevance. The industry rewards people who can keep generating “the next” version of themselves, so the subtext is a kind of negotiated truce with pressure: if she’s always plotting, she’s always safe.
There’s also a sly self-awareness in the escalation to “very, very bored.” The repetition signals that she knows how melodramatic it sounds, but also how real it is. That’s why it works: it turns what could be read as ambition into a recognizably human itch, the modern condition of living on deadlines, cycles, and reinventions - with the uneasy suspicion that stopping would mean disappearing.
The key word is “have.” This isn’t curiosity; it’s compulsion. She’s not saying she likes plans, she’s saying plans keep her from something worse: boredom as emotional free fall. In entertainment culture, boredom isn’t quaint idleness - it’s irrelevance. The industry rewards people who can keep generating “the next” version of themselves, so the subtext is a kind of negotiated truce with pressure: if she’s always plotting, she’s always safe.
There’s also a sly self-awareness in the escalation to “very, very bored.” The repetition signals that she knows how melodramatic it sounds, but also how real it is. That’s why it works: it turns what could be read as ambition into a recognizably human itch, the modern condition of living on deadlines, cycles, and reinventions - with the uneasy suspicion that stopping would mean disappearing.
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| Topic | Reinvention |
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