Yeah, Entry of the Gladiators is as "traditional circus" as it gets! That's probably why some of the Felds don't like it. I think that they wanted to get away from the "traditional circus". Whether that's good or bad, I don't know, but it sure seems like it didn't work out, huh.
I'm so sorry. I feel the same way. I wake up every day on the circus train, my home for five years, and look around my room, and dread having to pack up my things and lock the door forever. I walk around the train yards that we live in and remember parties and barbecues and good times that won't happen again. I look at the arenas and mentally check them off as we leave each city...another arena and another city that I may never see again. I remember the little special things about each city, the cities we will get to see one last time and the cities that I was looking forward to but will not get to see. It hurts every day. Part of me wants each day to last forever. Another part of me wants to hurry up and end it already.
Ringling was special, and it's a shame that it will be gone. I hope that someday someone will try to replicate it, but you're right, the circus world will never be the same.
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Date: 2017-01-26 04:39 pm (UTC)I'm so sorry. I feel the same way. I wake up every day on the circus train, my home for five years, and look around my room, and dread having to pack up my things and lock the door forever. I walk around the train yards that we live in and remember parties and barbecues and good times that won't happen again. I look at the arenas and mentally check them off as we leave each city...another arena and another city that I may never see again. I remember the little special things about each city, the cities we will get to see one last time and the cities that I was looking forward to but will not get to see. It hurts every day. Part of me wants each day to last forever. Another part of me wants to hurry up and end it already.
Ringling was special, and it's a shame that it will be gone. I hope that someday someone will try to replicate it, but you're right, the circus world will never be the same.
Thank you for writing. <3