Today as I took the baby for a walk, a bubble suddenly appeared over my head, and, strangely, I’m quite sure I heard a popping sound! Startled, I looked closely and sure enough there was text written inside the bubble. It read: Every moment you exist, carry the feeling of being whomever you want to be or having whatever you want to have. (Yes, it was a big bubble, so all the text fit.)
I immediately look around for Archie and Veronica, but couldn’t find them anywhere. Richie Rich? Nowehere. Batman? Nope. It was then that I realized that I am living in my own comic book, and that I am not only the star actress, but the writer.
What do actors do? They study their material. They ingest it day in and day out until it is natural for them to perform their part as it is to breathe. They don’t just say the words, but they feel the feelings. The real feelings. They are not pretending when they are a good actor. They feel everything to it’s core. I’ve thought for a long time that the auras of incredible actors like Cate Blanchette, Daniel Day-Lewis or Johnny Depp must actually change when they are in character. They become, for a short time, someone else. Daniel Day- Lewis so much that it often takes him time to come out of his role and become himself again. If they can do this for “entertainment”, then I can certainly do this to better my life and live the life I wish to live.
I am also the writer, the creator, the mother of all that I wish to create. the page is blank and I choose and there are no limits. When I took my screenwriting class, I gave birth to numerous shorts. There was nothing on the page before I dreamt of these stories, and then BOOM! I imagined, and dreamt and wrote a whole new world for my characters. I’m good at that. It’s my best talent. So, I can do this for my life. And as I’ve written my stories in the past, I believed these characters, moments, and situations exist. I’ve wept over stories I’ve written. And now I must believe the new world that I want to create. My comic. My story. I must invest as much and even more of myself into Kim’s story than any other. And FEEL!
Feelings are the fires that set energy in motion.
FEEL AND BE. BE. Be who I want to be, now. Live the way I want to live now. Intend.
Gorgeous passage–love it!
Thank you Jamme.