Finding Your Bliss

These past couple of weeks I suffered, worked, dreaded and even panicked about finals week, but since I am still writing it must be known that I survived. I don't know if I am intact or not, but somehow I was able to get through those treacherous days. After I handled that hurdle I immediately went home to start and finish an even more daunting task.

My plan was to move into my sister's old room, but before doing so I would clean, paint it, move all my furniture into it other than my dresser and trunk, and then paint those as well. Not the same color as the walls of course. I have more style than that even though my own sister questions it constantly... I think it is due to the fact that I took over her old room and replaced the old memories with my own. Which basically means that she was pissed that I wanted to paint the walls. However, it stil needed to be done and if I wasn't going to do it, my mother was. My plan is to finish the project before I go back to college. We'll see how far I get on that.

These past two days I have been in the cities though so no work has been continued on my room for a while. This unexpected trip has been glorious, chaotic, and jam packed with miniature adventures. Yesterday, my friend Lissy, the one I went on my road trip with, and I came down to the twin cities so that she could perform at a 10 year anniversary of Prelude today. While always somehow being a half hour late, we were able to see all her old Perpich friends at Caribou, and meet her cousin and my old roommate Sam for dinner at The Crave in St. Louis Park.  We seemed to always be late due to my stupid GPS giving us the wrong directions or not having the restaurant in the system was a challenge, but somehow everything worked our for the best.

Then today, being that friend, who was never in Prelude, was very interesting and amazing to join in on the convention during the day. I must admit that the open arms I was given made me feel right at home even though I can not sing for anything. I mean my voice is okay, but NOTHING compared to their wonderful voices. I was completely aware about how inadequate I am in that department; however, I was able to do a workshop that involved acting. I was up there with a partner doing an improv scene about a customer dining in a restaurant. This was probably the most fun I had in ages. The teacher right in the beginning said "everyone one of you will fail at this, and you will look like a fool, but you will try nonetheless to succeed". Knowing this when my partner and I volunteered second made it even more fun. I was given the chance to try something out without any pressure to be perfect. Being a server, one would think that I would opt for that role, but my partner and I decided to mix things up and I was given the chance to be the customer. The challenge and the critiquing stopped us many a time and made us redo it, mostly to complement me, haha just kidding. The first time stopped I was complemented and made to redo it mostly because the teacher wanted to point it out and see if I could redo it the same way. I succeeded!

There was one thing that really was honed into me today that all three teachers said "Don't follow your dreams, follow your bliss." Do what makes you happy, don't try to reach an ever unreachable goal. That's what I am going to do and doing right now. I found my bliss, now I must pursue it.