I tend to stew on things...for a very long time, usually without speaking about it much. The end result being that it can seem to anyone besides me that I've made a rash decision, because that was the first they'd heard of it. And frankly, it's because I can't imagine they're all that exciting. I just don't like change much, and so I tend to sit on things for a long time before committing to them. Anyway, I made four major (for my life anyway) decisions in the past two-and-a-half weeks. One, I'd thought about years ago, and then forgotten about. When I went to the doctor right before Christmas for the allergy testing, she kept bringing it up. I didn't have any plans, but the timing was suddenly right, so it was done. The second my hand got forced, so I jumped; I was pretty sure I was making that one, but I'd been waiting. The third one I needed to do, for a long while, and events nudged me to jump on that one as well. The fourth is the consequence of the others.
I mention this because I feel like I'm losing my mind. I half-joked to a co-worker that I was wondering if I'd had a stroke, or a tumor, from how jumbled my thoughts have been. (Seriously, considering seeing a neurologist.) I mean to say one thing, and a completely wrong, really unrelated, word comes out instead. I can't remember things, things I know, basic things. (And yet we were singing really challenging music in rehearsal tonight, but if I go on autopilot, I can sing the notes right. If I try to think too much, I can't.) And I can't give an example, 'cos when I search my brain it's like walking into an empty room. And I've lost my train of thought. And I'm super irritable (but I'm aware of it, so I try not to take it out on anyone.)
On the brighter side, it's like switches flipped. Places where I'd been stuck, released. Possibility opened up. I'm having a lot of insight (even if I can't always remember if I don't write it down.) My emotional range broadened tremendously. (And I thought of a revenge fantasy, a year too late for Meisner. Yet, I understand how it would be useful in a scene. In fact, a lot of the Meisner stuff has made more sense to me in the past few months than it did when I was learning it.) So, that's all good.
The decisions in-and-of themselves weren't major, at least they probably wouldn't be to most people, that fact that they changed everything, is.
So, now what?
Thursday, April 16, 2015
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