The memoirs begin...about me

True or false: I am a senior in college. If you answered true, then maybe I should make it a bit more challenging to figure me out. You're right; I am a senior at Georgia Southern University that still does not have a job lined up for after graduation. Everything is piling up on me, and I can't help but think that I'm going to fail miserably at life in general.


But now to get to know the basics about me. I'm a journalism major obsessed with the idea of being an actress - not for the glory, mind you, but for the sheer art and work involved. Yes, I am an odd character. I have always fancied myself as something of a drama queen, but when you grow up in such a small town with little opportunity, you don't get much of a chance to strut your stuff on a stage. I'm a shy person at first, and I hate talking in classes but get me in front of a group and I can do it.


It's that drive to find myself in the entertainment industry that made me want to become a journalist. I am working on a few scripts, one of which is my own adaption of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which will in my opinion have a better, more fulfilling ending than the previous ones (though I absolutely am in love with the films and the writers are amazing). I like drama, if you couldn't tell. And I'm typically the person in the background of a crowd but secretly enjoying my own personal monologue where I'm involved in some big production or some amazing story. I like to put myself in the center of things, and I'm often a peace maker between my friends.


I'm not really into the whole workout thing. It's not because I'm lazy; it's because I don't really need it that much. If I want to tone myself up, it usually takes about a week, and I eat food that is not the best in the world for my health. I'm a tomboy at heart, and I love to sing (classicals, musicals, opera, pop) and think of story ideas to write about. If I could, I would move to LA and write scripts or act or something. But this isn't the perfect universe. This is my life. Welcome to it.


I'm a 22 year old college senior that is looking back over her years in Statesboro, Georgia and everything that has happened in that time. These are the best years of my life; these are the memoirs of an eagle.


**EDIT**


This is from my own personal prospective on what I want to do with my life.


Growing up in a small town, it seems quite the preverbial tale of a girl with big dreams. Think of me as a young Julia Roberts (we’re from Georgia, the two of us, though I look nothing like her) that appears younger than she really is. I’m petite all around, and I am painfully shy at first. It seems quite contradictory that I might in some way want to take classes or even act. I like to watch people, and I love to watch how people react. Oftentimes, I like to imagine what they are thinking. It is the simple, unsaid things in life that have the most importance. The old man sighs and shrinks in his posture while beside him an old woman crosses her legs and looks the picture of proper. I love to write, and I love to act – or I loved to act, when I took classes in middle school. I am twenty-two years old, five foot nothing, one hundred and nothing with an athletic build, brown hair and eyes that have green on the outside with a more yellow color on the inside. Some may mock me for wanting to act in any way, but it is my dream. If I don’t finally overcome my small town hinderance then I will never get the chance to taste the sweet nector of this dream. And, therefore, that is my post for all to plainly see. I want to act, not for money or fame. I want to act for myself, for all of those around me that I watch. I want to bring a character to life and help it to grow.