Imagination

Today's workshop was less of an intense emotional experience and more of a run around like rambling idiots experience. My specialty. More importantly though, we focused on expanding our imaginations.

After the acting workshop last week, I had an epiphany. The way that I could become a better actor was by taking advantage of my vivid imagination. After all, I can imagine things like robots ripping each other to shreds on the streets outside my house or bugs crawling up my arms. Why the can't I imagine a normal scenario?

Today, we had to do an exercise in which we held our phone in one hand and held a cool glass of water in the other. I could see these objects in my hands. The drink was already making me thirsty. Then, we had to imagine the glass of water being filled to the brim. I was already getting nervous, because I knew with my luck  I was definitely gonna tip it over. I watched intently. Luke seemed to notice, pointing out how intent I looked. Then, he decided to throw an imaginary ball at me and I freaked out. I attempted to bounce it off my chest because I had no hands to catch it with. Also, I didn't want to spill that drink.

That's when I realized, haha, that ball wasn't actually real. But man, it sure FELT real. And I was still holding that cup and cellphone in my hand. I guess I knew that none of those things existed. I made them real though, so they did exist. They existed as much as I wanted them too.

I guess the moral is to take use of your imagination. It baffles me just how powerful imagination is. For good or for bad. Mostly good though. Hopefully.