In my incredible theater class, we are learning the Meisner technique. Fascinating technique may I add. You have to clear your mind and state the truth about the person in front of you, all this nonsense that we are all afraid of. Well. It was my turn to go up today. And it was going well.
Then Doug had to ask me a question and my job was to repeat the question with the answer within the subtext, make sense? I asked him a TOTALLY stupid question, being "Do you like going to the dentist?" Lame question, I know. First thing that popped into my head. When it was his turn to ask me, I wasn't expecting what he asked.
"Do you like yourself?"
I honestly don't remember how I responded. I was just shocked he asked me that. I know we are supposed to get deep, but, I was the first deep moment of the day. And I didn't know how to react. But I did. And my dear friend Jason said how real it was.
But it got me thinking... Do I?
I think I'm always caught up in this image that I'm supposed to become that I don't even know if I like myself as I am. I was never confident about my look, ever. And this was the first time, in front of people I'm usually happy around, that I was punched with an intense question like this. Of course, he read my like a book when he had to talk about how I responded when I repeated the question.
So, I guess I really need to figure this out for myself.
Do I like myself?
All I do know, is I'm madly in love with that class.
Thank you Doug. Thank you Meisner.
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