LET'S GET UNCOMFORTABLE
"It's just not my thing, I don't feel comfortable."
You would think that by now, at my big age, I'd understand that life does not care whether or not you're comfortable. It's gone throw stuff at you. Sometimes you might catch it and sometimes it might hit you in your back when you not looking.
The past few weeks we've been talking about seasons. The season of waiting, the season of building while you're waiting and this week, the season of discomfort that that comes with it all. Some may refer to it as growing pains. You know what they say, "In order to get something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done." Also, who is "they" and why they be talking so much?
I'll give ya'll a few quick examples and I'm gone let ya'll go because ya'll ain't about to make me late for work, I need this job:
Aight so boom... I absolutely love bread and sweets but I hate the gym. However, I want to look good in my birthday outfits (and out of my birthday outfits if ya nasty) So I have completely cut those things out of my diet until my birthday and have started a regular workout routine that makes my legs feel like noodles but hey, I gotta pay the price to be sexy.
Ya'll all know my struggle with stepping outside of my box to do stand up comedy. For years, I've told folks that I am strictly an actress and writer. And I would almost have a lil attitude when they ask me if I do it (I'm sorry, I was probably just hungry). But now, I realize that I was putting my own self in a box. What if I've been blocking my blessings this whole time? What if stand up comedy is the path that I need to take in order to get me to my dream role?
Photo: Dario Durham
Fam, the moral of the story is, at first their sour, then their sweet. You have to allow yourself to feel a little uncomfortable in order to experience the results that you want. So maybe if you're uncomfortable shooting your shot, you need to stop being scary and slide in they DM's.
I'm not doing that though. I'm the slidee not the slider.
See ya'll next week!
-BRIT