Thursday: Don't Quit Day

This last Thursday, I learned not to quit. Or more like, not to run away scared.

Thanks to our good friend Groupon, I have been taking an... ACTING CLASS (!) for the last month (at this great school -- Dearing Acting Studio).

Specifically, it was a film auditioning class. Despite the fact that (or partially because of the fact that) cameras tend to make me feel like a bug about to be squished by an oncoming headlight.

This Thursday was our last class, and it was meant to be a cumulative mock audition -- complete with awkwardly silent waiting, judges, and a camera rolling away.

I hadn't had time to practice my memorized audition commerical all week.

As a result. I almost didn't go. I was thinking up all sorts of excuses not to -- I didn't want to embarrass myself, it was going to be disastrous, it's not as if I was getting a grade and really neeeeeded to be there... hmm, maybe i could just have to work late...

You know what I mean. If it wasn't going to be perfect, I didn't want to go. You've probably been tempted to make these excuses  yourself for various things.

BUT -- I somehow found myself driving there about 4:30 just as I normally did, anyway. I decided not to run away.

Proof! Me right after the audition :)

And just like most things in life -- in the end,  I was really glad I did it. Yeah, it wasn't perfect... but I also had some successes, and I was so glad I saw it through.

I think there's a lot of merit in simply following through with something -- even if it's not "required", and even if it's scary or inconvenient or imperfectly executed.