This isn't a quirk of mine, just a thought. And since it's Monday, why not?
As thespians, we want things. Sure, we want everything that any other human being wants, but we also have dreams of the perfect stage career, the most hard working cast, the most creative design, the opportunity to direct your favorite show, or write the next Pulitzer prize play, or win an Academy Award( be honest, you've had that dream, even fleetingly). And if you don't get published, or cast, or chosen(or whatever a designer or director gets when he/she is given the job), it's not because you're not talented. It's because it's not time yet.
As thespians, we want things. Sure, we want everything that any other human being wants, but we also have dreams of the perfect stage career, the most hard working cast, the most creative design, the opportunity to direct your favorite show, or write the next Pulitzer prize play, or win an Academy Award( be honest, you've had that dream, even fleetingly). And if you don't get published, or cast, or chosen(or whatever a designer or director gets when he/she is given the job), it's not because you're not talented. It's because it's not time yet.
Directors
cast with one thing in mind "Right Place, Right Time, Right Reason."
Each actor is cast because he/she meshes with the picture in the
director's head. Actors are there to audition; they don't necessarily
see the big picture. The director does. They know what they are doing.
As humans, we want things too. We want things NOW, not later, not tomorrow, not next week, RIGHT FREAKING NOW. And when we don't get it, we as humans do one of three things--get ticked off at everyone, and everything, go into depression and wonder what we did wrong, or cowboy up and move on.
I will be the first to admit I very rarely do number three without doing number one or two first. Because it's natural, innit? We feel disappointments because we don't get the job we want, or live in our dream house, with our dream spouse, surrounded by the perfect social life. But life doesn't always work out that way. That's why it's called life.
Things will happen. Good things, bad things, relationships, grades, employments, etc. But not until they are supposed to. And if it doesn't happen, it's not supposed to. Things happen at the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons. Just wait and keep doing what you're doing. If something doesn't happen, move on.
"Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans."
