<p>I go to a private school in Toronto, and I cannot tell you how many patronizing encounters I’ve had when I tell people that I want to study acting and writing in university. Almost everyone at my school is going into business, engineering, medicine or law-- so when I people that I’m majoring in theatre, they’ll say “Theatre, eh? That’s a risky career choice…” or sometimes they’ll just give weird looks and forge a smile. I don’t understand why some (not all, but some) people look down on the arts so much. I get that it’s ‘unstable’. But whose business is it that I want to be an actor? Mine. It’s what I love to do. Simple as that.</p>