"I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all." - Meryl Streep
Tonight is Parent Teacher interviews and I have a whole fourteen lined up to take me through until after dinner. Some will be a little bit difficult, dodging answers about talent, and others I will be perplexed as to why the parents came when their daughter always does well and is a high performer. Nevertheless, I always feel the weight of criticism upon me and I tend to stress about perceptions and whether I meet up to expectations.
When I was twenty I believed I could do anything - I sang and performed in bands; started running long distance (despite my doctor's advice about asthma); studied dance; wrote and published books as well as songs; and even decided I could get a degree despite my poor academic performance at High School. I've been Creative Director for numerous advertising agencies, working in Australia and overseas. At one stage I worked out I'd performed to crowds that totalled to in excess of 1/2 million people - all before I turned 35! So why is it that twenty years later I doubt my own abilities to the extent I don't feel confident to talk to parent's about their children's scholastic efforts?
Perhaps ignorance is bliss and we achieve so much more without the fear of failure gnawing at our bones. So tonight I'll put my best foot forward, dig out the tie from the bottom drawer and put on the shine... wish me luck!
Burn brightly, Pete
Perhaps ignorance is bliss and we achieve so much more without the fear of failure gnawing at our bones. So tonight I'll put my best foot forward, dig out the tie from the bottom drawer and put on the shine... wish me luck!
Burn brightly, Pete
You know something about their daughters that they don't know, they don't judge you they want you to either confirm or dispel their perceptions of their children. I imagine that whatever you tell them you do it with care. Finally worked out how to post a comment....
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