(Okay, so it's Thursday! I plead a crazy week full of auditions. Enjoy!)
Anyone who stops learning is old. ~ Henry Ford
This week I am in New York and New Haven jockeying my way through a gauntlet of graduate school auditions hoping that my journey to a full fledged acting career will include additional formal training at the hands of the masters. It is often strange to think, after even just eight months in the real world, of returning to school. Then again, I don't know that I will ever truly leave the role of student. There is certainly something to be said of "learning something new everyday". At the risk of sounding too cliche or corny, I will leave it by suggesting the wealth of knowledge available to us daily, even by the second, is incredibly humbling.
As an actress, I continue to workshop with fellow actors, train physically with companies in my area, and exercise my instruments daily. As a businesswoman, I continue to explore my skills set by applying to jobs and fashioning impeccable cover letters and resumes that would make my alma mater's Career Services proud. As a young college graduate still settling in to a new locale and new relationships (professional and otherwise), I find it best to take one day at a time. With so many options and opportunities for my future I am relishing the sense of plasticity. And through it all I continue to learn about myself, the path I want my career and my life to take, and the person I want to become. I certainly haven't taken the easy road - eight months post-graduate, I am not exactly looking at the big bucks or the penthouse suite. And yet with every challenge met, with every new discovery made, I remain a life-long learner, forever young Mr. Ford!
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