Personally, All I Ever Want To Be

Perspective Is The Most Important Thing To Have In Life.

I Would Rather Be A Person Who Struggled There Than Someone Who Had A Great, Easy Time And Then Got Out In The World And Was Like, "wait A Minute, I Didn't Get Voted Class President? What's Going On?" You Know, "popular" Doesn't Necessarily Correlate To Anything. "popular" Still Has To Get Up At 7:00 In The Morning And Go To Work And Do Something Worthy Too. There's No Edge, Really, That You Get From Being Whatever Was Popular In School.

Over And Over In The Play My Character Says, "i'm Thirty-two Years Old," As If That Should Explain Everything That's Wrong In Her Life. I Don't Know What It's Like To Be Thirty-two, But I Can Imagine. I Imagine She Means She's Stuck In An In-between Time, She's At An Age That Isn't A Milestone But More Of A No-man's-land, An Age Where She's Feeling Like Her Hopes Are Fading.

Getting Anywhere You Want Is Hard Work. In This Photography Culture, Everything Looks So Amazing. But It's Actually Very Hard To Get To Where Anybody Gets.

I Was Always Torn Between Wanting Whatever I Pictured As A Typical High School Experience And That Being Just A Part I Wanted To Play. I've Written About This, But One Of Those Typical High School Experiences Was Drill Team. Like, I Just Really Wanted To Wear A Uniform And Get On The Bus And Be Part Of This Group. As An Only Child, The Idea Of Blending In - And Literally Everyone Being In Sync And Not Standing Out At All - Felt Like Kind Of A Fun Family Thing.