10-03-2010, 04:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2010, 04:57 PM by Questioner.)
Gribbons, I admire your honesty and courage in working on your personal growth.
Here are my own ideas. Please use your own discernment, work with the ideas you like and set aside the others.
Sounds like the switch of major will give you a more comprehensive understanding of all the activities, onstage and backstage, that help the show to go on.
A great producer or director would need to know at least a little bit about all of these areas. If the producer does not comprehend what can be done with sound equipment, they may dream up an impossible situation for the microphones and speakers so that nobody can actually hear the play without feedback. If the director does not know what it feels like to be an actor, their guidance about the characters will not be as strong.
Why not use this time in your life to become that strong and well-rounded in becoming a human being?
Discover the roots of the compulsions to drink, to obsess on one person, or to worry about things you can't change. Live your own life that is healthy, well balanced, happy and complete. Enjoy friendships and dating, but without any pressure to build relationships. After all, it is only fair if you ask someone to join you, you should be able to tell them where you are going! You don't really have a strong sense of that yet.
Become a person who does not require someone else to fill empty holes in your own being. Appreciate the infinite love of the Creator through the full range of human diversity. Be aware that God is not so stingy as to give you only one chance at sharing a life of love, then take it away from you. Choose a bigger faith than that. You can have any number of great friends. And there will be several people who could be wonderful partners for your life. But don't rely on them to build the missing ingredients that should come from your own spiritual growth. Become a confident, strong, mature, balanced person, and then an equal love will be available.
I also really like the advice to not try to develop a lifetime relationship before age 25, and before you are well established in the basics of your chosen career. Before then, life is changing too fast to build a stable foundation with another person.
Here are my own ideas. Please use your own discernment, work with the ideas you like and set aside the others.
Sounds like the switch of major will give you a more comprehensive understanding of all the activities, onstage and backstage, that help the show to go on.
A great producer or director would need to know at least a little bit about all of these areas. If the producer does not comprehend what can be done with sound equipment, they may dream up an impossible situation for the microphones and speakers so that nobody can actually hear the play without feedback. If the director does not know what it feels like to be an actor, their guidance about the characters will not be as strong.
Why not use this time in your life to become that strong and well-rounded in becoming a human being?
Discover the roots of the compulsions to drink, to obsess on one person, or to worry about things you can't change. Live your own life that is healthy, well balanced, happy and complete. Enjoy friendships and dating, but without any pressure to build relationships. After all, it is only fair if you ask someone to join you, you should be able to tell them where you are going! You don't really have a strong sense of that yet.
Become a person who does not require someone else to fill empty holes in your own being. Appreciate the infinite love of the Creator through the full range of human diversity. Be aware that God is not so stingy as to give you only one chance at sharing a life of love, then take it away from you. Choose a bigger faith than that. You can have any number of great friends. And there will be several people who could be wonderful partners for your life. But don't rely on them to build the missing ingredients that should come from your own spiritual growth. Become a confident, strong, mature, balanced person, and then an equal love will be available.
I also really like the advice to not try to develop a lifetime relationship before age 25, and before you are well established in the basics of your chosen career. Before then, life is changing too fast to build a stable foundation with another person.