Working to Impress

So my parents hate the fact that I'm involved in theatre. They don't believe it to be a real career and they feel that I have completely wasted all my schooling and talents to go this route in life. For them, money equals happiness and they firmly believe the stereotype that all theatre people are dirt poor and gay and terrible people. I've tried for so long to convince them of otherwise.

And I really thought I had done it this time, but when I told them that this fall I'll be working for the National Theatre for Children, they were pissed and had decided to discontinue their support of my theatrical endeavors and when asked whether or not they would be coming down to Memphis to see my first professional show, they promptly told me they had no plans to do so. It just upsets me so much. I thought that between my senior project, my work with this professional company, my job teaching theatre in Memphis, and my job for the fall, I thought that they would finally be proud of me and understand that I CAN DO IT!

What a fool I was.