Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[RobinHood3000]

Welcome, welcome, to all the new members and old-but-late-in-returning members!!

[Gordon Comstock]

Welcome to all new voices and to a great site to converse and to let those thoughts hang out.

Gordon

[miss tenderness]

Hi every friendly body in this great website
I'm a new member and I'd like to read about the American literature in depth because I'm not American . I'm Arabic and I read a lot of the arabic literature , and some of the American too . Recently I came to America to study . I've been living at the pacific ocean caost for about 6 months , specificly in Oregon State . So , that's why I want to read more and more about America . I read a little bit about how the American essence came into being , but the most important for me is to know about the literature history and who were the most famous writers in the American history .

I abologize if there is any grammar or spelling mistake

thanks Pensive for giving us this chance to introduce ourselves

remmber ,there is no sad guys in the Litnet forums!
cheer up!

[Virgil]

Hi every friendly body in this great website
I'm a new member and I'd like to read about the American literature in depth because I'm not American . I'm Arabic and I read a lot of the arabic literature , and some of the American too . Recently I came to America to study . I've been living at the pacific ocean caost for about 6 months , specificly in Oregon State . So , that's why I want to read more and more about America . I read a little bit about how the American essence came into being , but the most important for me is to know about the literature history and who were the most famous writers in the American history .

I abologize if there is any grammar or spelling mistake

thanks Pensive for giving us this chance to introduce ourselves

Welcome Sad Guy. Any specific question, I will do my best to help you. And welcome to our country. I've never been to that Oregon coast, but I hear it's quite beautiful. I hope your stay is here is pleasant.

And no need to be sad. Why sad? We'll make you happy.

[Pensive]

Hi all!

Sad Guy: You need not to be sad. Go to the "Jokes" thread and believe me you will crack up with laughter. There is more to life than sadness.

[miss tenderness]

I'm thinking of changing mine to

sad girl!>>>>I'm really stressed today

[Nightshade]

hello

[THX-1138]

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name

[RobinHood3000]

Geek power!!

[Sad Guy]

miss tenderness


thanks and I'll try not to be as sad as I'm , just to keep the forum in its happy situation .
btw , why are you stressed today ?
nice girls can easily make the life happy ,
just look at the life and give a smile to it ... and I'm sure it'll be happy to have a smile from you

Virgil

thanks for your warm feelings , and I wish you the best in your life .


pensive

" there is more to life than sadness "
that's a great statement , I'll not forget it my friend ....
thanks for welcomig me .


Regards

[toni]

Hi Toni! Thanks for the welcome.

I know that you don't want to hear this, but you are young yet and have lots of time to work on making your dreams come true. I'm convinced that if you want something enough you can make your dreams come true. Sometimes not in the way you originally thought you wanted them, but sometimes in ways that turn out to be much better. Remember, I didn't start working on my dream until I was much older than you. It's amazing how much your dreams change throughout your life. At 16 I wanted to be a veterinarian! In college I studied to be a medical technologist and actually got my degree in that and worked in the field for about a year. Then I was a wife and stay-at-home-Mom for years. Then I was a Tupperware Lady. Then, while I was studying theatre and doing community theatre I did silk flower design and even had my own store! It wasn't until I was past 45 that I realized how important theatre and directing was in my life and that it was really what I had been moving toward all my life.

Acting professionally is one of the most difficult careers there is. But if you have talent and are willing to work really hard, to study to learn the skills you will need and have passion, determination and perseverence, you too may have a chance to follow your dreams and to feel the joy of seeing them come true. Taking acting workshops is a great start for you. I hope you have a wonderful time with them.

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on dreams, ms direrctor. I promise to live by your words and never give up on acting. Your story is truly inspiring. I wish you well in alll your endeavors....

Let's make our dreams come true!!!

[msdirector]

I promise to live by your words and never give up on acting.

Uh... that wasn't exactly what I said, Toni. I said to follow your dreams. But I also said that those dreams may change over time. Never giving up on something just because you've decided you want it can waste a tremendous amount of time and energy. After all, what would have happened if I had never given up on MY dream of being a veterinarian and never found out that my true calling was in theatre?!!! That would have been a HUGE mistake. It was only because I was willing to open myself to other possibilities that I was able to find my dream and follow it.

I'm not saying NOT to follow your acting dream, Toni. But I am saying not to tie yourself into a life choice at 16! Try other things, open yourself to other alternatives, give yourself a chance to find out what is really right for you. When people ask me about pursuing an acting career, I tell them, as I did you, that it is one of the most difficult, financially insecure, unstable and risky careers there is. I tell them, if there is anything else that you can do that will make you happy, DO IT!

BUT... I really do understand a passion for acting, and I don't minimize the possibility that a young person could indeed have found her dream. If acting is truly right for you, that passion won't go away by exploring other avenues. And every experience you have in your life, everything you learn, every avenue you take will add to the knowledge and experience that you have to draw on as an actor. I loved acting as a kid, but if I had gone into theatre when I was 16 I wouldn't have been half as good at it as I was later in my life when I had real life experience to draw from. It was the fact that I had worked through my own problems and had come to understand what I really wanted that allowed me to find real strengths and weaknesses and let me find my way to directing.

By all means, Toni, act! Act all you can - audition, take classes, get into a good university theatre training program, follow your dream. But don't close yourself to the possibility that another passion might come along that's even better for you than this one.

One more little story, then I'll stop. My daughter always wanted to be an actor. She pleaded with me when she was in her teens to let her audition for commercials. For many reasons I said no. As she grew up she also realized that she loved kids and wanted to do something working with them, but her dream of acting remained. She chose her college - Brandeis University - for its excellent acting program, but also because it had a very good psychology department. After taking some classes and exploring a bit, she declared a double major in theatre and psychology. She graduate with a BA in both. After a year of working full time in an office day job to build up some money in the bank, she then worked part-time at an Equity theatre for another year and earned her union membership as an actor and stage manager. By that time she was happily married to a wonderful man who had earned his MA in lighting design at Brandeis. At that point she decided that the passion to work with children was stronger than her dream of acting. She went back to school, earned her MA in Child Development (interupted only briefly to have an adorable son who is now a year old), and is now working in the Foster Care system hoping eventually to work in Policy to make the world a better place for all those kids struggling in the system.

The point is that she was smart enough to know that we learn and grow and change as we go through life, and we should be smart enough to recognize that dreams change along with us. I love her dearly and I am so proud of the choices she has made. She would have been a great actor, but she followed her heart, not just her dream, and I respect that tremendously.

Sorry, Toni - I got carried away. I know this isn't an acting advice forum and you certainly didn't ask for mine. But I've seen so many people hurt by this industry that I can't help putting my two cents in when I can. I truly hope that you enjoy your acting, whether as a career or a hobby, and, if it is right for you, that you find it to be everything you hope it will be for yourself.

[Zypher Wolfe]

Hi there, just recently joined. Hmm, something about msyelf....well I like writing poetry. I'm dying for some exposure and critique. Although I'm sure everyone here can give me such I have no idea how to post up my poems. Perhaps I can use this forum as a place to go to to find people who take writing seriously enough to offer different perspectives and interpretations. I'm a college student attending a junior college and planning to transfer to a four year that has a good writing program.

Oh yeah I think wolves rock, they are one of my favorite animals although I don't know why. Well hope I didn't bore anyone, maybe I'll hear from some of you soon.

-ZW

[bacchante]

i introduce myself and say hi

[miss tenderness]

miss tenderness


thanks and I'll try not to be as sad as I'm , just to keep the forum in its happy situation .
btw , why are you stressed today ?
nice girls can easily make the life happy ,
just look at the life and give a smile to it ... and I'm sure it'll be happy to have a smile from you

oh, just work problems! I'm fine today