Skating and Actors and My Secret Music

When I was a sophomore in high school, a good friend told me that she thought I was going to make it big with my music. I was a little surprised by this, as I was an actor. Most people saw me as an actor. Not many people saw me as a musician. I didn't think that I had played her any of my songs, but she told me about a few she had heard, hanging out in the back of the theatre, listening to me play to what I had thought was an empty room. It was surprising, but nice. I still think about that sometimes as I'm working my 6-4 job for the government.

I don't like so much of the fakeness of the theatre/actor world. I don't like it when people try to tear you down so they can feel superior to you, or so you don't get a contract or the TV show you were supposed to get or whatever. I don't like it when people try to take what is yours. I don't like it when people get mean and try attacking you. I don't like it when people get mean and attack me. I don't like that.

I like how skateboarders are pulling for each other to successfully land their tricks. I like it how the general mentality is if one person does something awesome, they all have taken a step forward. Somehow, skateboarders succeed as a group, and this promotes a communal promotion of others that is rarely seen anywhere else. At least, rarely seen by me. I like it that they don't tear each other down much at all. They all push each other to be better than they just were, and in the process, they realize that it's super fun to do just that, and when it's not fun, take a break.

Somehow, these thoughts are connected in my head. I'm not sure how they are connected... but they are. You figure it out, you Monday-morning-psychologist, you. I'm too close to it.