At the age of 10 my parents introduced me to live theater. Only because I think my mother wanted me to have a girly outside interest and up until this point I had hated and quit everything else that she had made me try. She put in baton lessons...the teacher one time told me, " If you don't want to do it then just quit"....and I threw down my baton and said, "fine, I quit." Now realize this is also what my older sister did after we all stopped racing BMX bikes and she was once again wonderful at it. Then mom put me into dance lessons, ballet, tap, jazz, clogging, and square dancing...well as you can see I am not on dancing with the stars or so you think you can dance. I also had spent quite a lot of time in the pageant circuit.
But theater, theater was right up my ally. I got to run around and play parts of characters other than myself and also be the center of attention for a huge audience. This was a pivotal time in my life. I spent the next 8 years doing it and became a natural to the spot light. It also gave me more confidence than my parents had probably hoped for. I had become so comfortable with acting that it became a part of my real life and I thought that I could act my way out of anything.
This is how I lived my life. As if I was unstoppable and I could rule and run all the lives around me as if I was living in a fantasy land where everything has a happy ending and everything is a fairy tail.
I have way too many pictures to post on this blog :-0
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