In seventh grade, I signed up for a theatre class. I thought it was just a singing class - but anything related to going on stage in performing just really excited me, so I stayed in the class. I loved performing in a choir when I was younger, I used to be extremely outspoken and extroverted - I was even the lead in a play! Anyhow, when I found out that the class I signed up for was a theatre class and not a singing class, I still planned to give my all.
But peer pressure got the better of me - there were these group of 'popular people' that I really wanted to befriend - and they didn't like making themselves look stupid and they didn't like looking weird, as you would do a lot in an acting class. In the beginning of the year, I would act weird along with everyone else and had a blast doing so. However, as I began to talk to that group of 'popular people', I found that it was basically 'uncool' to make yourself look stupid so that eventually got to my head and things like acting and dancing became so stupid to me. That even was probably one of the things that made me retreat into myself.
And I really, really wish I hadn't done it. Granted, I'd be SUPER weird now (not that anything is wrong with that), but at this age - I would have found similar people and I would be a lot more happier. I'm happy now, with the friends I do have and all, but to know that my life could have taken a different path but didn't simply because somehow I instilled in my head that the 'popular people were better' is something I wish I'd never done.
But peer pressure got the better of me - there were these group of 'popular people' that I really wanted to befriend - and they didn't like making themselves look stupid and they didn't like looking weird, as you would do a lot in an acting class. In the beginning of the year, I would act weird along with everyone else and had a blast doing so. However, as I began to talk to that group of 'popular people', I found that it was basically 'uncool' to make yourself look stupid so that eventually got to my head and things like acting and dancing became so stupid to me. That even was probably one of the things that made me retreat into myself.
And I really, really wish I hadn't done it. Granted, I'd be SUPER weird now (not that anything is wrong with that), but at this age - I would have found similar people and I would be a lot more happier. I'm happy now, with the friends I do have and all, but to know that my life could have taken a different path but didn't simply because somehow I instilled in my head that the 'popular people were better' is something I wish I'd never done.
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