Pigeon

Sometimes people like being told what to do, because it's comforting to have security, a sort of safety net that prevents you from falling into the unknown.

One of my teachers at Circle told the class that it is easy to graduate from any school and not have learned a single thing.  I think those were his exact words but my feeble human mind is not strong enough to remember a sentence (AND I AM ASHAMED TO CALL MYSELF AN ACTOR!!!).   But the point is... with that in mind, I like to try find the meaning to everything I do so that way I am not wasting my time and money.  I think you should go about life in this manner- somebody told me today, if you are doing something not worth dying for, you are not living.

Food for thought?

I am going off tangent... but anyways back to acting- I had this substitute for mask class but instead of doing exercises relating to mask, we did similar exercises like the ones in physical acting.  Interestingly enough, he learned the same technique as my physical acting teacher.  What was interesting was that the substitute able to explain the exercises in a new way and it gave me a new perspective while my other teacher kept an explanation from us!

Alot of the students were a bit annoyed that this piece of information was kept from us so we welcomed the substitue's lesson with open arms but ALAS! We didn't realize that... we were pigeon holed into an explanation which prevents us from exploring other possibilities relating to the exercises.

This whole new perspective gave way to my imagination... and it opened my eyes to new possibilities.

Don't stay comfortable.

Explore/Become aware/Observe