Looking back
I want to take a second to look back and re-evaluate my life and the things I have learned within my first few months here.
Wow, first off, college rocks! I have really come to love everything about college and what it encompasses. Oddly enough, it makes me feel at home, being here, alone, on my own. And I love that. Some people, it's not for them, but I, I've always known I was made to be in college. It's difficult in ways you don't necessarily suspect. I wouldn't say it "harder than . . . " I would just say that it is different, very different than anything prior to college.
Now, about what the blog was for in the first place: My Acting 1 class. As a "theater person," I feel like the luckiest person on earth. I get to change lives through an art form, practically daily. I get to be real and feel and understand humans. I get to bond with all kinds of people over our passion. That's what theater teaches you. It teaches you how to be human and how to be the best kind of human. Although I learned countless, necessary things to be an actor in my Acting 1 class, I almost value more the things I learned that are not technical terms or tips or ideas. I almost value more learning about people and kinds of people. I value bonding with them and understanding them. I value them making me a better person because they are creating art. These things are things that ultimately I remember and need most. They are things I can easily incorporate into my everyday life, even outside of theater. So my brilliant Acting 1 class, I learned so much and it put me out to a really good start in college. In theater, you have 'people' and I've been able to find my people and I hope we all end up holding on to each other until an end. So looking back, I'd say that because of my people and mentors and the arts program I am involved in, I've found home.
Wow, first off, college rocks! I have really come to love everything about college and what it encompasses. Oddly enough, it makes me feel at home, being here, alone, on my own. And I love that. Some people, it's not for them, but I, I've always known I was made to be in college. It's difficult in ways you don't necessarily suspect. I wouldn't say it "harder than . . . " I would just say that it is different, very different than anything prior to college.
Now, about what the blog was for in the first place: My Acting 1 class. As a "theater person," I feel like the luckiest person on earth. I get to change lives through an art form, practically daily. I get to be real and feel and understand humans. I get to bond with all kinds of people over our passion. That's what theater teaches you. It teaches you how to be human and how to be the best kind of human. Although I learned countless, necessary things to be an actor in my Acting 1 class, I almost value more the things I learned that are not technical terms or tips or ideas. I almost value more learning about people and kinds of people. I value bonding with them and understanding them. I value them making me a better person because they are creating art. These things are things that ultimately I remember and need most. They are things I can easily incorporate into my everyday life, even outside of theater. So my brilliant Acting 1 class, I learned so much and it put me out to a really good start in college. In theater, you have 'people' and I've been able to find my people and I hope we all end up holding on to each other until an end. So looking back, I'd say that because of my people and mentors and the arts program I am involved in, I've found home.
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