esteem issues anyone?
ok so i was watching oprah today-even though it was a re-run of a show i'd already seen- and it was all on teen girls and issues with weight and boys and thinking you're ugly and fat and all that, and it was all uplifting and "you're beautiful, remember that" for like an hour and i was thinking, well as much as this pertains to me, these are quite extreme cases i'm not THAT bad, and i began thinking about how these days people try so hard to be all esteem building and uplifting and don't you dare let anyone feel poorly about themselves and i'm not knocking that i mean i think that's a good thing obviously but at the same time we should stop trying so hard to make people feel like princesses and try harder to produce humble yet secure children, now doesn't that sound like a good medium? i mean i'd rather have a slightly insecure child then a swollen headed brat now wouldn't you agree....although i do feel that teens of today suffer greatly from a low view of themselves but that's just a stage we all suffer through and get over ya no?
kinda makes me think of this play i'm doing...the director well he's a total nut job right but at the same time he has no trouble with this self-esteem crap, he just tells us it was terrible...he tells us that every rehearsal, that the play is horrible that it's just not any good and none of us are any good and we need to work harder and do it faster because if his play is going to be bad at least it will be over quickly right? and although we're constantly complaining about him never complimenting anything even once (well maybe once, but hardly ever) we still listen to him every single night as he knocks this play, us, himself, and a lot of other things..and you know what, rather than us getting all teary eyed and thinking we're terrible actors, he gets us to try harder, to want to be better, to prove him wrong, that's honestly what i'm thinking when i'm up there in front of him, i'll show him, i'll be the best Lampito there ever was and we'll see if at the end of the scene he corrects me, and you know what the last few times he hasn't mentioned my preformance once during his criticism...and that's a good thing, because he only talks about the negative things, and it used to be me all the time, and it's not anymore, and that is what makes me proud of myself..it's not him telling us, it was good or praising us for each and everything we've done right, it's him yelling at us for 15 minutes until all you want to do is make it better so he'll shut up...that's what i call accomplishment in this play! tonight, i was genuinely proud of my preformance, he didn't stop me ONCE he didn't complian about me or make me re-do any of my lines or tell me my preformance was bad...not ONCE ALL NIGHT...and that my friends makes me beam with joy- even if oprah doesn't agree
changedfish- defy oprah? never!
ok so i was watching oprah today-even though it was a re-run of a show i'd already seen- and it was all on teen girls and issues with weight and boys and thinking you're ugly and fat and all that, and it was all uplifting and "you're beautiful, remember that" for like an hour and i was thinking, well as much as this pertains to me, these are quite extreme cases i'm not THAT bad, and i began thinking about how these days people try so hard to be all esteem building and uplifting and don't you dare let anyone feel poorly about themselves and i'm not knocking that i mean i think that's a good thing obviously but at the same time we should stop trying so hard to make people feel like princesses and try harder to produce humble yet secure children, now doesn't that sound like a good medium? i mean i'd rather have a slightly insecure child then a swollen headed brat now wouldn't you agree....although i do feel that teens of today suffer greatly from a low view of themselves but that's just a stage we all suffer through and get over ya no?
kinda makes me think of this play i'm doing...the director well he's a total nut job right but at the same time he has no trouble with this self-esteem crap, he just tells us it was terrible...he tells us that every rehearsal, that the play is horrible that it's just not any good and none of us are any good and we need to work harder and do it faster because if his play is going to be bad at least it will be over quickly right? and although we're constantly complaining about him never complimenting anything even once (well maybe once, but hardly ever) we still listen to him every single night as he knocks this play, us, himself, and a lot of other things..and you know what, rather than us getting all teary eyed and thinking we're terrible actors, he gets us to try harder, to want to be better, to prove him wrong, that's honestly what i'm thinking when i'm up there in front of him, i'll show him, i'll be the best Lampito there ever was and we'll see if at the end of the scene he corrects me, and you know what the last few times he hasn't mentioned my preformance once during his criticism...and that's a good thing, because he only talks about the negative things, and it used to be me all the time, and it's not anymore, and that is what makes me proud of myself..it's not him telling us, it was good or praising us for each and everything we've done right, it's him yelling at us for 15 minutes until all you want to do is make it better so he'll shut up...that's what i call accomplishment in this play! tonight, i was genuinely proud of my preformance, he didn't stop me ONCE he didn't complian about me or make me re-do any of my lines or tell me my preformance was bad...not ONCE ALL NIGHT...and that my friends makes me beam with joy- even if oprah doesn't agree
changedfish- defy oprah? never!
posted by changedfish @ 1:14 AM
1 Comments:
At 9:55 PM ,
stephensakuma said...
I concur. People should be willing to take the high road and admit they aren't perfect.
as for the play . . . I can't wait.
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