Personal Narrative: A Career As A Theater Major

My freshman year of college I was a theater major. (I know great idea, probably not going to get a job in that field) I was passionate for theater in middle school to high school and that drove me into the field. I loved the roar of the crowd and the blinding lights that filtered across the stage. I cherished the butterflies of the first performance the feeling of nerves before you walk out from that curtain. I ached for the stage that I had left hours before, it was an addiction. The adrenaline that lured just under the surface of everyone who was apart of the performance.

When I went to college that energy still remained as I was welcomed into the program with open arms. I learned how to make costumes, and work behind the stage rather than prancing around on the set. After nearly a year and a half of being a theater major. The grueling hours to complete productions and rehearsals were starting to kill the luster of the major. My excitement for the performing art came to a screeching halt. During the day I was in class and once finished I was at the theater until late in the night. My life had become entirely devoted to the stage and I wasn’t happy …show more content…
Nothing that made the heart pump and the energy run through your veins like a horse. I wanted that excitement back but I knew I wouldn’t be able to get it back until I walked back on a stage. I didn’t want to go back to that life however, so I kept looking. I tried English after that, it had a similar effect. I loved to write but I had no interest in journalism or teaching English to students, I was at a standstill. I didn’t know where to go, or which direction to turn because everything drew me back to the theater. The theater where my love of the thrill started, I was like an addict and the stage was my drug. I kept trying to find a place that I fit in, a place where I could comfortably be myself and have a life outside of the