-playing the joker-

Just a quick thing about acting.

People ask me why I like to act so much. I never really though about it. It just seemed like a normal, fun thing to enjoy. And it is. But sometimes I find myself acting when I don't intend to, or I do it without people knowing I am acting. I always though it might be because I just liked it so much. But the reality was I was happier when I wasn't really...myself. I preferred being other people, other characters I created for myself, with different issues to mine, and if I got too lost in one person I could always change to someone else. Once I realised this I was acting daily, pretending I was other people all the time, just to escape my own issues and thoughts. I'm getting so good now even I can't always tell when I'm acting. I would like a career in drama.

Author's Note

reviews welcome!

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Smiling here.. mainly because i want to delete that last line! Tis said that many actors never know who or what they are and those are the ones often trembling in the wings before stepping onto the stage. Have no idea whether or not that's true... but certainly your words suggest the loss of Self whilst trying to find something more comforting?!

Good write, will be back to read more, some time.

[Eloise]

wow thank you so much!

[emmajoy]

Pleasure..