New Perspectives in Dreamland

Thank you for your kind comments and suggestions. This post is part 4 of a story. Here are links to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. We left off with a teenage girl who had let disappointment and discouragement kill her dreams, to the point that she forgot that they were ever her dreams.

Of course, I am that little girl. Twenty-two years after that eighth grade play, I now recognize that these just may be God-given dreams. It’s been growing inside me, this realization. I realize that I may have talent that just needs some honing, training, etc. I’ll never know until I try. And I need to not give up so easily. I now realize that every character in a play is important, that it is important to be cast into a role that fits my talents, that rejection from a particular spot or even show is not rejection of my acting as a whole. That the role I perform may sometime be the lead role, but sometimes it may be a small role. Maybe I could learn to be comfortable as the one being laughed at. Maybe I could be truly funny, and not take it personally.

I’m still overweight, I’ve never taken a voice lesson, and I’m not so very young any more. I see that as severely limiting the positions for which I could audition. I’m probably am too old to be Cindy Brady, Annie, or Anne of Green Gables, although inside, I feel she’s who I really am!

Oh, but in those shows there are so many good adult roles I could play and be. Oh my, now I would love to be Alice on the Brady Bunch! Let’s see, in Annie, maybe I’d be Miss Hannigan (could I be mean enough though?... maybe I’ll be one of Warbuck’s servants!) And in Anne of Green Gables, I could be Merilla, or maybe the crotchedy old nosy neighbor (what’s her name?)… oh, or Aunt Josephine! Am I too old to be Maria in the Sound of Music? Oh, I would love to be her because that exuberance she can’t hold back is so much inside of me! But I do fear I might be too old! She’s supposed to be pretty young I think. But I could be one of the nuns, or the housekeeper, or maybe even the Festival contestant who bows and bows and bows way too many times and has to be ushered offstage!

To Be Continued…

• If you’ve found that you’ve allowed your dreams to die, erase the old excuses and try to look at them with fresh perspective.


• If you have trouble erasing the excuses, be sure to talk with a couple of friends to see what their perspectives are. Do they agree with your excuses?

(You may be surprised to find that those perfectly good reasons may not be as rational as you think).