funny how life picks for you.

last year sparked a big change for me.
i started
dealt with depression,
read blogs,
met a life coach (very magically mind you),
created art,
started a new path in my work,
had a few epiphanies,
and some bumps.
it was definitely a year of GROWTH.

this year the word MAGIC picked me.
i had this assumption that it would look a certain way.
that i would walk down the street and birds would
chirp and sing around me.
you know, that things would glow with “MAGIC”.

instead it was in the little things.

for example, i believe the universe gave me what i needed:
i get a job, it is working on a lifetime miniseries
only this time instead of dressing background actors (which is safe)…
my boss wants me to take on some principals.
i’m scared to pieces.
why? …
because i didn’t think i could do it.
no, strike that, i knew i could but i was afraid of making mistakes.
(and boy did i, more on that someday.maybe).
needless to say, when it came to splitting them up (me and my set partner) they got picked for me…little did i know that the universe
conspired. I got 6 main people and some of the day players.
the actors i got were funny, generous, kind, and completely “right for me”.

I got the peeps i was meant to have.

They took it easy on the “new girl”.
They were patient when i overcompensated.
They were kind if i forgot things or just plain didn’t know.
They had a sense of humor (there is nothing better)!
They showed grace to me when i didn’t.
They were real AND FUN.

And for that, I am grateful. I learned. I was harder on myself then they were. That helped me to take myself a little less seriously.
A LITTLE.

I have this feeling that my work even though i try to keep it separate from my “real life”..is really teaching me lessons i need to know.

How cool is that?

How does you work teach you?

xo
melly