What Acting Means to Me

Acting class teaches me how to approach life. I realize that I’m timid when it comes to apporaching situations within my life, and acting teachs me to always take center stage. It means having the courage to step out of myself to be someone else, and allow myself to enjoy it, and be good at it. I lack the courage to be great, as many people do, because we settle for being just at par, when we have the potential to be so much more. So I guess acting is teaching me courage. I fear being wrong, being judged, failing, which causes me to not take situations into my own hands. With acting, I fumble a lot in the beginning, and I am criticized and directed, but I still have to take a role, or a monologue and make it into something that’s worth watching and being.