BRIEF ARTICLE FROM YET ANOTHER PERSON GOING TO LA.

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS

BRIEF ARTICLE FROM YET ANOTHER PERSON GOING TO LA.

I read this not too long ago online. Three things that happen when you take your dream of being an actor to LA. However I couldn't print the first two for content, FROM OTHERS. First, 'judgemental" 2nd 'the competition" but this is number three.

If you make it past “acquaintance” and through the “competition” stage, the next conversation comes from – my favorite of the LA relationships – the Unwelcome Mentor. (we have those in Atlanta in abundance) They have probably lived in Los Angeles for at least one week longer than you have, and therefore know everything about everything. They’ve already given up on their dreams and they would be glad to advise you on how to do so for yourself. They will either tell you to do things that you are already doing, like “keep at it” or “don’t give up!”; or, they’ll tell you to do things that sound eerily like giving up, like “why don’t you just move back home for awhile?” or “why don’t you just become a bartender?” or “why don’t you just toss aside that cute little ‘acting’ hobby and commit yourself to climbing up the ladder at your soul-sucking day job?”

When people talk about liking everything about LA except the people, this is what they mean. Everyone is either shoving unwelcome advice down your throat, viewing you as competition, or judging you for thinking the way you think about your own life. And the worst part is that, on most occasions, it’s actually all three at once.