Thursday, January 18, 2018
Assessing Your Life In Entertainment
TheatreArtLife: In an industry that is evolving, competitive, and demands so much of an individual’s passion, creativity and attention, it can be near impossible to recognise when we have lost sight of our personal needs. We put ourselves second, or often not even in our top 5 priorities. Which industry am I talking about? Well, to be frank, all of them.
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I found this article relatable because in many ways it speaks to some of the biggest struggles of working in the theater world. I have friends who are actors in New York, and they talk about how hard it is to keep moving from job to job to job. You are absorbed intimately with a group of people for 2 or 3 months and then you may never see them again. I think that’s one of the most difficult things is not being able to have home base. While the struggles of keeping up with modern life are applicable to all industries, entertainment in particularly job specific. Even though here at CMU, I am technically anchored down its very easy to become absorbed into the work and forget to have a personal life. It’s easy for things such as exercise and meditation to fall by the wayside in the face of unending work.
This article really hit home for me, especially the part about questioning your path, choices, and then everything about yourself. I often take the easiest, planned road ahead of me. I like routine and pattern so often I end up doing things that don't necessarily fulful me or make me happy out of habit and comfort. College especially has sot of shocked me out of this and reminded me, with tough love, to put myself first, know my limits, know what I want to be or do and what I just feel I SHOULD want to be or do. The whole section on finding your true self is something I know for a fact I need to work on, especially as a very shy, introverted, and anxious person who'll often do things JUSt to feel like a part of a group or that people like me, even if that's not what's really happening.
Just as much as college, this article is a bit of a wake-up call from the comfortable routine I've fallen into with the start of the new semester. I need to follow my own heart and what I know I want or will enjoy, rather than what others do or I think is expected with me. I need to find the people and things that make me happy, the activities that bring me joy and refresh me, and the career that will give me a purposeful and fulfilling life. That may not be where or what I'm doing now - in fact, some things are very much up in the air, including my major, because of these reflections - but I can't let myself fall into passivity. Instead, I need to take time and reflect as this article says, and stay connected to my personal self and who I want to be no matter the things going on around me.
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