When people hear that I am interested in theatre and acting on stage, they always look at me funny and I can see the wheels turning in their heads as they wonder and try to figure out why and how someone as quiet and soft spoken as me could ever be interested in an art form that requires performing in front of huge audiences.
Isn’t that an activity more fit for someone who is more outgoing? they think. It doesn’t make sense that someone like her would ever do well in that kind of thing.
I know that this is what everyone thinks of me. I know it by the way they look at me. But there is something that they just do not understand. The reason I like acting on stage so much is because I am being someone else rather than myself. There are many times when I do not like myself, so I like to find ways to forget this person who I am frustrated with and be someone else. This is not only why I act, but this is also why I read and write.
You see, it is quite simple…I like the person I am when I am living and portraying the life of another.
"To Let Myself Go" by Ane Brun
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Speculations of an Artistic Mind: Jane's Thoughts
Non-FictionEveryone has thoughts. These ones are mine.
