At Adler, one of the first lessons we learned was "what are you learning?". It's an exercise that helps keep the actor, and more importantly, the human being in check with their own state of being. Every week the teacher would ask us "what are you learning?". I have continued this mantra to help me put perspective on where I am right now and where I'd like to go.
So... what am I learning? I'm learning that:
Problems and personal issues exist and persist regardless of distance and place.
Theatre is truly where my passion and soul is: the happiness, sadness, love, and pain all together.
Revealing my soul to an audience is such a cathartic joy and release for me, unlike anything I have in real life.
With every positive experience comes a negative experience and without the negative experiences I wouldn't be able to appreciate the positive experiences.
Identifying my anxieties and fears about life and acting is much more constructive than trying to forget they exist.
Living life in the present, though frightening, is much more rewarding than trying to live life in the future or past.
Humility, humility, humility, and acceptance.
Everything's a process. Nothing is fixed overnight, or over a year... things take a while, and I have to trust that - time time time.
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