Life Changing

There I was about to run up to the man I was married too, Brad. He pulled out a gun and said it was the end of the life of the man I was really in love with. I couldn’t bear to see Brad kill the love of my life! I ran up to him and told him he would never get away for something like that. I struggled getting the gun out of his hand more than anyone would ever know. The gun sprang out of his hands and boom. I’m “dead”…..
All my life I always wanted to grow up and have a career with animals, or children. Mainly, I have been very bipolar about my career choices. On the other hand, I do have a major hobby I love to do, which is acting. I’ve been doing drama for four years now, and I’ve been in plays before but, they never captured my mind and made me discover what I think my hidden talent might be. There was this play called, “Unwrap Your Candy,” and it was about six comedy plays about plays. I like to act. I like comedy. It was perfect. So I tried out for the play, and I made it. I was very excited. Out of the six plays, I was in two of them. The first one I was in was called “Playwriting 101,” and the second one was called, “Cut.” We rehearsed for a good month. Then came the weekend where the hard work at rehearsal really came in.
The moment before I went on stage I was actually not that nervous. I was in the back hanging out with friends and gaining energy to perform with. Then that moment came where I stepped onto the stage, and then I started to get a bit nervous. I’m really not scared when it comes to crowds and whatnot, but this time I realized that I couldn’t mess up, because there was a month a rehearing, but there where only three performances.
There I was, about to jump and kill my life, until a click stops me every time my scene partner and I talk. Then I heard people laughing? My scene partners and I where making the audience laugh. That alone took away my nerves. Actually, as soon as I said my first line, “I’m going to jump and nobody can stop me,” took my nerves away. As soon as that scene was over, I walked off that stage with a smile on my face excited for the next scene. I knew that there was something spectacular about it.
Just shortly after, was “Cut.” As soon as my scene partner and I walked on stage, there were remarkable awkward moments that where suppose to be there. Yet again, the audience laughed. Then my nerves went away again. Throughout this play, my character had changed characters seven times because different directors kept announcing cut or tried changing the play around. As much as the audience where probably confused, that was the reason why the whole plot was funny. Towards the end of the play, all of a sudden I turn into my first character, who is a dramatic women trying to change the mind of her dramatic husband. Brad, my husband, took out a gun and told me he wanted to kill my lover. I couldn’t let him do that so I ran over to him and struggled with him for a while until he accidentally pulled the trigger on me. Then I laid there dead listening to the audience reaction about the over dramatic death.
As much as I wanted to laugh with the audience because all my other scene partners found hilarious ways to leave the stage, I couldn’t because I had to still lay there dead. So I realized that acting isn’t more than just a hobby. I am able to make a career goal out of it and take this to a whole new level. At that moment, lying dead still, I new people would be proud of me, because I know I don’t strike people much as the person who is loud and courageous, but now people saw a side of me that changed everybody’s mind. It was life changing.