Passions...

Theatre rules my life .... with an iron fist.
I don't know if anyone can truly understand unless they're a performer themselves, but the adrenaline rush is too much, even after all these years, to ever think of quitting or slowing down.
Even though I'm constantly chipping away at my Education degree, I still secretly hope that someday I'll manage to find myself a theatre job - acting, directing, writing, administration I don't care.
But because Theatre rules my life, everything else comes second place - family, friends, social life, relationships, school - it is unfortunate but it'sthe burden I willingly carry.
So friends and family get upset when I miss parties and birthdays and holidays, but I have no choice - I'm at the theatre.
I hand in assignments late because I happened to be rehearsing or teching all the week it was due, and I just can't help it.
I drive myself insane getting in the middle of dramas and gossip and rumours and fights happening at the theatre - and they're always so much worse when they're actors involved - I lose sleep and I worry and obsess ... and it's all because I love the theatre too much.

And when people tell me to quit, to save myself, I look at them as if they speak an alien tongue ... I can't quit - it's my life - it's my drug .... it's my reason to go on.

So pick your passions wisely.