This reminds me about how I asked out a beautiful girl from a neighboring township during my senior year of high school. At that point, I had never had a girlfriend and recently recovered from pretty bad acne that affected my self-esteem. I was nervous but asked her out anyways. We worked together as servers at a retirement home. As I was leaving one night and she was waiting for her mom to pick her up, I asked her if she wanted to hang out sometime. She said yes! Not long after we went to prom together and it made everyone’s mouths drop. One of the popular kids who I respected most said I had brought the star of the show. Other popular kids were confused and jealous. Some even bullied me. But, like the kid in Sing Street, I held my ground, seeing that their venomous comments came from their own insecurities and family karma.
The creative action I’m taking these days is writing Scene Lift and opening up here. I also took a risk and left my full-time job in pursuit of freelancing. This will provide more freedom with how I work and more space to focus on fun projects like Scene Lift and screenwriting. With traditional jobs, there’s too much noise, especially with communication mediums like Slack. Someone always has an opinion that you’re expected to listen to and what you do is never enough. There’s always an expectation for more. This is not a system I want to support any longer. I want to continue to work with companies as I have no intention of becoming a vagrant, but outside the inner circle that often feels neurotic. Rock and roll baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucThe0nMRKI
This reminds me about how I asked out a beautiful girl from a neighboring township during my senior year of high school. At that point, I had never had a girlfriend and recently recovered from pretty bad acne that affected my self-esteem. I was nervous but asked her out anyways. We worked together as servers at a retirement home. As I was leaving one night and she was waiting for her mom to pick her up, I asked her if she wanted to hang out sometime. She said yes! Not long after we went to prom together and it made everyone’s mouths drop. One of the popular kids who I respected most said I had brought the star of the show. Other popular kids were confused and jealous. Some even bullied me. But, like the kid in Sing Street, I held my ground, seeing that their venomous comments came from their own insecurities and family karma.
The creative action I’m taking these days is writing Scene Lift and opening up here. I also took a risk and left my full-time job in pursuit of freelancing. This will provide more freedom with how I work and more space to focus on fun projects like Scene Lift and screenwriting. With traditional jobs, there’s too much noise, especially with communication mediums like Slack. Someone always has an opinion that you’re expected to listen to and what you do is never enough. There’s always an expectation for more. This is not a system I want to support any longer. I want to continue to work with companies as I have no intention of becoming a vagrant, but outside the inner circle that often feels neurotic. Rock and roll baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucThe0nMRKI