I Call A Do-Over

28) Something You Regret

So one thing that I regret…I try not to dwell too much on the past and wish for do-overs. After all we only have one life:

But if I had to pick one thing…hmmm…I know just what it is. Time to go back to 2009!

So when I was in high school I did theater. Yep, I was  theater geek.

I did musicals and plays. It was a lot of fun and taught me a lot of skills for public speaking and presenting. If only employers appreciated it.

So one play I was in, a made a BIG mistake. In fact it is one thing I regret and wish I could do-over.

So I’ve done a post in the past on how I have had some guys like me who I don’t like. Most of them were a bit creepy in the fact that they were extremely clingy and always trying to be next to me.

Now I had one guy who was my friend, but like we found out in When Harry Met Sally that’s a hard thing to do, and he liked me. I wasn’t interested in him as we were too similar in our personalities. It would have turned out very bad.

So we both tried out for the school play, as we both enjoyed the theater, and won some of the lead roles.

The only problem? Our characters were in a relationship.

So as our characters were together, Patrick, my friend, started to blend fiction with reality and started thinking we were together.

Just kidding. He wasn’t that intense.

Anyways, he started acting really possessive. He  started to treat it like we were together; trying to plan out dates and didn’t like me talking to other guys. This started to make me really mad.

This made me very upset. I didn’t like the way he was treating me, so I did the only thing I could think of. I spoke to the director.

I told him what was happening and asked him if he could speak to him on it. Tell him he noticed that he was taking the play a little bit farther then he should. I told him I needed help because it was making so uncomfortable and hurting my ability to perform well. He said he would talk to him.

I was so happy that everything would work out. The next day however, I the director told me that he decided not to say anything as he thought anything he said would harm Patrick’s performance.

I was so upset. And I continued to be uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this really hurt my acting as my scenes with him weren’t as good as they should have been.

I just couldn’t add to his fantasy that we were “really together”, when we weren’t.

I wasn’t horrible, as lucky for me our characters, while in a relationship, were having some problems.  So I was okay…

But not fantastic like I could have been. In fact, that director was so mad at me, that he never worked with me again.

Now I am more mature and to able deal with such an issue, I realize that I was actually the whiner in this. If I could do it again I would do it much differently. I would have just ignored his attentions, and continued acting well.

But unfortunately I was a teenager, and we all know that teenagers do not have the best common sense.

Oh, well. It was a mistake, but we just have to move on and learn from it.

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22) Something You Never Expected

Hmmmm….let me think….

Hmm

Oooh! I know just the thing to write about.

So we are going back in time to 2009.

So in 2009 I was 17 years old. That August my youth group went to an amusement park as our last group trip before school started.

We went on all kinds of rides and had fun.

As we were walking along the lot, my friend Anny spotted a booth playing music. We danced around, just being silly…

When this man and woman in suits ask us if we would like to enter a contest.

Now you all know me and contests/free stuff.

I was like sure! What’s it for?

A chance to be in a Jonas Brothers’ music video!

No

No, no no no no no no no no no no. I hated the Jonas Brothers. Well not them specifically. I just didn’t care for their music or the fact that they were everywhere and on EVERYTHING. There was no getting away from them.

I was like no thank you.

My friend however, really, really liked the group and wanted to enter. But she didn’t want to do it alone. So I said fine, ok.

After all, what are the chances you’ll win? Like never.  

So all we have to do is get our picture taken in front of a background and leave our name + phone number. Easy, peasy.

What’s kind of interesting was that we were actually the only ones asked out of the entire group. I guess they just liked our dancing or something.

Four months pass. It’s December and I am concentrating on schoolwork, Winter formal, Christmas, etc. When I come home I get a phone call:

And to my surprise it was the people running the contest. They had chosen ME out of their hundreds of applicants. I was stunned.

ME??????!!!

They gave me the information on where I needed to go, when, etc. But I answered, no.

I know what you all are thinking. WHAT? WHY WOULD YOU TURN THAT DOWN???!!! (That’s what all my friends said.) Well, I just felt that as I didn’t care for the guys and it didn’t really matter to me, I’d rather it go to someone else.

Besides, you know what’s cooler than being in a Jonas Brothers’ music video? Having turned it down.

Yep, not everyone can say that. But I sure can.

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