My life has done a bit of a 180. I was always doing theatre things and considering myself avant-garde and all of that artsy fartsy jargon. The truth is that I never really knew where I belonged. The world of the stage is a beautiful world, but it is not for everyone, and certainly was not for me. It is a vain profession, to be an actor. All day, every day, all you are thinking about is how to market yourself so someone buys your services. There are other professions like it, but you probably know what they are. The point is, that although theatre is a beautiful thing, I needed to do something more, than just exist for myself. I needed to be in a giving profession, one where I could use my passion, knowledge and enthusiasm for good, and to help others. So here I am, finishing my Master’s in Teaching for Secondary English Ed, and I love it. I learn new things every day from everyone around me, fellow teachers, students, administrators, preachy middle aged men in Starbucks . .. the point is that I am growing. It is important that we keep growing, kind of like “Jack and the Beanstalk” in the sense that we, (I think) as people, will always discover and will always be discovering more things to know.
So onwards with my journey into the world of education I go . . . (although I’ll be using theatre references because that’s a part of me too)
“and to get what you wish . . only just for a moment . .. these are dangerous woods . .
let the moment go, don’t forget it for a moment though . ..
just remembering you had an ‘and’ when you’re back to ‘or’
makes the ‘or’ mean more than it did before. . . “
-stephen sondheim “Into the Woods”
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