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Question: What do i do to get out of this!?
I signed up to help at a theater camp this week!. Key word: HELP!.
Well the director called today and said she was checking in to make sure i was still going and to bring lunch blah blah blah!. Then she said that having me in the show will help allot because there arent allot of kids signed up and most of the kids are allot younger!. I do not want to be in the show!.

Its not like i can come out and tell her that i dont want to be stuck in a theater show with 3rd graders (im 14) because i would feel too bad!. I told my mother and she said "I made a commitment!."

Yes!.!.!. a commitment to help out with the camp!. So what do i do!? I really don't want to do this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I can see where you're coming from!. I actually had to help with an elementary school production of Peter Pan one time!. What was my job!? I was one of the Mermaids!. Sometimes, helping and being in the show are the same thing!. I had to help with the bubbles and keep the other little Mermaids focused!. As much as you might not want to do it, stick with it!. You might come out feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside!. Just don't tell your friends; mine brought their phones and took pictures!. And try to blend in with the kids, otherwise it's kinda awkward turtle from there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well you're either going to have to tell the camp director or go through with it!. I wouldn't advise doing anything else because it would be irresponsible and neglegent!. Be honest or stick with it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Learn to keep your word, if for no other reason, at least to yourself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Mom's right, do it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

First of all, in a MORAL sense, you'd be demeaning yourself to back out of a commitment!. It's a bit different than MOM asking you to clean your room, and you saying "Sure", then letting it go!.

I try to realize what it might be like to be 14 in 08, and that you may have assumed HELP in camp may have meant, washing dishes, feeding in a camp member line, being a COP at cleanup time, etc!. BUT geez, you have a HUGE mentor opportunity in this for those wee kids,
and a Maturation situation for yourself!.

Since you don't detail the PART, or any lack of details when you said YES initially, do you have better things to do!? Would it be so horrible to be looked up at, by 3rd graders as an ADULT, and possible HELP them, while you HELP the camp, and very likely HELP you as well, in the experience!.

BRING LUNCH!?!?!? Is that for YOU, or every camp member!?!?!?

I gotta tell ya, even at my age, I'd JUMP at the chance!. YOU could end up, not only being THE STAR, in their eyes, but as much a GODDESS, and friend to children at an age YOU used to be!. YOU COULD even end up in the time spent TEACHING them!?

At 14 I want to believe LIFE is confusing and conflicting, and SO many things are so much more important to you (no offense) but WOW,,, this could be YOUR first of many efforts in PAYING IT FORWARD!.

I'm 50 years older than you are!. I've had to BITE THE BULLET more times than you have spent years on the planet!. I suggest you look at all the possible positives!. BTW, Summer is near over, the kids at camp know that too!. Would it be OK to send them home in an experience that was disappointing, perhaps only because of YOU!?

I hope you take the task, and make the best of it!. YOU,,,as I said, might actually get into it and enjoy something of it!. If you truly have to back out, tell me where the camp is, I'll take a few weeks off to offer my services!.Www@QuestionHome@Com