So Many Acting B.A.'s, So Few Paying Gigs

emeraldkity4
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:13:38 +0000

I do believe in luck- or Karma or whatever you want to call it.

While I believe that we all have choices,we see different opportunities, and thus make different choices, which then open up other opportunties, and depending on how we view the world, we will see or not see.

If you are hit by a truck- I wont argue over the situation, because “accidents” do happen, but we have choices over how we then react to that situation. are you going to throw up your hands, or are you going to make it work for you?.
I had a friend who was a nurse, and was in a car accident and was in a coma for 6 months. When she came out, after some therapy and she learned to walk and read again, she went back to school, to learn a profession that she could perform, because her old job of nursing wasn’t available to her any more because of cognitive changes after the coma.
She could have just sat at home bemoaning the fact that she “lost” her old career, rather than appreciating that this opportunity gave her a chance to try a new one.

Another couple we know, had a 5 year old, who had an inoperable non cancerous brain tumor, they chose to fully celebrate his life, and enjoy the time he had left, other families might have had made different choices. For some they might spend that time moaning and groaning and saying “why me”?

Surely not choices you would choose to make in a perfect world, but we always, always have choices, but some of us don’t choose to acknowledge that, and so to them, the ones who actively make choices are “lucky”

OUr oldest was born 10 weeks early- had intercranial hemmorage and gross motor delay, we might have just acknowledged that she was going to have problems and treated her as such. BUt we were in our early 20s’ had no idea what we were doing, and treated her like the gift she was.
We took her to Gymboree- which apparently did wonders for her neurodevelopment as well as her outlook, and voila!
She is a senior in college!