Today is the day that you have to decide where you want to see your life going. Is it a change on a personal level (goals, dreams, aspirations) or is it in your career? Big deal for most people, even bigger for actors like me.

My thoughts today are veering towards both career and life, hand in hand. Because what people often forget is that for theatre folk, their job is also their life. What I mean by that is it is, like many other professions, it encompasses all aspects of your life. My job is my hobby. My hobby is my job. And wherever my job may take me that is, most likely,  where my head will be at too. So today for the first time in eight years, I am at somewhat of a crossroad, because I am reevaluating a life that up until now, has been constituted of show after show, tour after tour, with no questions asked. Just the joy and thrill to be working in something that I love everyday performing in front of hundreds of people, receiving applause after every show....WOW! There are no words. 

But progressively, you realize that real life begins to look you right in the face with everyone else in the world waiting for you to take your place, to take a seat and enter what people call 'society'.

After an exorbitant amount of partying and schmoozing with an alluring hoi polloi of showbiz peeps, each one of them riding high on that wave of delight of being part of that exclusive few that are known as "Employed Actors". Every second knowing that you are one step away from being that unemployed waiter that you have been trying to escape from; the reality of life as an actor. The reality of life, full stop. 

That is until you take a minute to stop. In the in-between job phase, what we call the "resting phase",  that is when the true feeling of getting on with your life and all that it can bring, realising your true potential awakens.