Learn to act? You gotta be kidding girl!

This is not the first time that I've experienced receiving the look and stares of what others look at me as a person who teaches drama for a living. When every time someone asks for my occupation. I would say I am a drama teacher. Then I'll be ready to receive one of the two kinds of reactions. A) They will be amazed, thinking this is something really special and they would like to know more. They are curious and they show interest of it. B) They will laugh at you. Not directly but the look that they gave you just showed that they are laughing at it inside their heart.

Well, honestly I tend to get offensive about it before but it will made to become stronger and to tell them things that they didn't really know before. Recently I get these looks from a teachers training workshops but I successfully captured their attention to listen to me, to listen on what "Acting Lab" really is! Other might think that we don't need to learn acting. That's totally wrong! Unless you were born with this talent, but still, even raw talents need to be brush up. It won't hurt to know more and to explore more! Acting is not just for anybody, it's for you. You get to discover yourself even more through all the theatre games, exercises and activities that we do in the class. In the end of my presentation, surprisingly they give another kind of look now. The look of "believing" and also to accompanied by an applause. I feel glad, thankful and proud at the same time.

Acting is not just for stage performance or to be in front of the camera. Benefits of acting may also applicable to our daily life. Shakespeare is right, the world is a stage. Yes, it's true! We are the actors in the world. We create lots of drama daily even without us noticing it. But do you know that it's hard to act naturally when you need to perform what you've done on the stage or in front of the camera? The exact feelings, the exact thoughts, moments... and ambience? Tell you what, it's not easy.

I am not expressing any anger in this post. I just would like to say that Acting is really an art and acting could take us to go beyond our imaginations. We could portray somebody and we also could share other people thoughts. It's just magical! Please do not laugh at people who studied acting. They are totally genius and guess what, they discover themselves more than you and also a risk taker to learn something special in life.