Hi, All. It has been a while. I am going to try to get better at being on this for myself but not be long and windy. My goal is to get better at reflection, and my communication and writing style without being long-winded.
So given that, I am starting with something I love, I love it because it helped me as a teen/young adult feel better about life and find something meaningful to do and escape into. When I first got into theatre, it was a summer program at UH Hilo, I was there for six weeks and I loved it. I was away from home and I learned so much about being in the theatre and a part of theatre, it filled me in a way that I felt whole.
Now was I good at it? I would have to say, no. I was not a shining star born to do it but one of the first lessons that I learned about myself was that I cared about making a difference in a small way by allowing someone else to have a cathartic experience from something I performed in, I loved to learn, ask questions, and acting was just the sum of a whole bunch of little parts of a bigger puzzle. Because of this mindset, I started to pick up each puzzle piece and I tried to to get better at it one piece at a time.
The biggest lesson I learned at this time was that there were a lot of pieces to being an actor and to theatre. And yes, I loved it all.
Monkiyo's Musings 