I miss Acting.
It's an interesting revelation. I mean, I don't miss it enough to give everything I've worked for and starve for the rest of my life for the sake of it. I miss the comradery. I miss theatre people. If you were in theatre you'd know the type: outgoing, non-judgemental, unassuming, loving, kind-spirited... These are the people that are in it for the love of the craft, not self-celebration.
I miss the production. I miss the team work. I miss putting in endless hours of work that builds up to one cressendo. I miss watching the preverbial dominos fall as the doors of opening night open. I miss the bitter-sweetness of curtain-call closing night.
I miss utilizing talents and instincts that I spent a long time honing to communicate a story. I miss the charge one gets when they can hold the emotions of an audience in the palm of their hand and take them for a ride they can talk about later over coffee. I miss story telling. I miss playing a villian, a concerned friend, or a persecuted protagonist.
I miss acting; but I don't miss the pay.
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Wow Temple. It's refreshing to hear someone talk about their dreams, and to do it with such clarity. I use the word "dreams" deliberately but with some hesitation. Deliberately because I know that you (and I both) dreamt at one time of making it as actors, or at least doing it for a living. Maybe it was never a serious inclination, but it was there. Hesitation because I know that you also dream of other things - i.e. true romance and eventually marriage, which you've found. So maybe we have to give one dream up for another?
It's funny, because this post got me thinking about the 3 Nick's - the movie idea we conceived of in high school. "Backseat Drivers," is that what it was called? It seems as though that story is still unfolding. Each of the Nick's is doing something with his life, and although we're similar, the individual narratives are different. I can't wait to see where we end up. Maybe it WILL make a good story one day.
Anyway, thank you for this. It got me thinking.
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