Theater is my life. It is what I live for. When I first decided to do theater, I always made the joke that I didn’t know how to do anything else. After my first semester here, I realize that it is all I want to do. Theater can relate to my everyday life. Theater is all around us. We can see it in interactions around people. I know that especially in retail, selling is like theater. You have to act like you care about what people are thinking. I once had a ten minute conversation about Ford Trucks. I haven’t got the first clue about Ford Trucks. I did however make a sale. I was acting. To be more correct, I was improving. It is all around us. A group of people performing to an audience. We see this is sports, banquets, award ceremonies, etc. For me, theater has always been an escape. Sometimes, you just have to get out of the real world and transform yourself into someone else. You get the chance to completely change your personality and take on a whole new persona. It is one of the most stimulating experiences that anyone can experience. I am also very passionate about tennis. Tennis, in my opinion is one of the hardest sports someone can play. I played in High School and I was fairly decent. I can relate theater to my experiences playing tennis. I could always feel that same surge of energy when I would walk onto the court when I would walk onto the stage. The crowd would always clap when I would win a match and they would always be watching my every move. It is very much like theater. The audience comes, applauds, and are always watching what you do. I am most comfortable when I am performing. I have absolutely no problem being in front of a large group of people. In school whenever I would have to give a speech, I would always go up there with confidence. I have this quality, where I don’t care what people think. Therefore, when it comes to small things like that, I don’t get nervous. It would be the same with tennis. I was never worried that I was going to embarrass myself. If I would ever mess up, I could cover it. That is what theater is about. It’s about acting on your feet. It is being able to act around people you don’t know. I have seen this every day. People who don’t care for each other, will pretend to act like they are best friends. It’s theater. It’s all an act. Theater can be found in a variety of things. The section of theater, that I find most interesting is teaching. I think that teachers would make the best actors/actresses. They have to pretend like they care about every single person that they are teaching no matter how much they may hate them. That takes talent. Theater is a part of everyone’s life. There is no way to avoid it, and in all honesty, why would anyone want to?
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