I recently got back from three weeks on Oahu, which is where I grew up. My childhood home is about 100 yards from Kailua Beach and one of my favorite activities is to get up early and amble down the lane to watch the sunrise over the ocean.
On my first morning, I got down to the beach extra early and dutifully watched for the sun behind a cluster of clouds on the horizon. It was the weirdest thing, though. The sky kept getting brighter and brighter, but still no sun.
It turns out I was looking in the wrong place. I was watching for the sun to rise over the Mokulua Islands where it rises in the spring instead of looking slightly more north to where it rises in the summer.
I mean, come on…it’s the sun, kinda hard to miss, right? I tried to convince myself it wasn’t that big of a deal because we’re pretty much trained from childhood not to look at the sun. But that was just an excuse; I was sitting right there, actively looking for it, and I still missed it.
This is all pretty embarrassing to admit considering I grew up on this beach but it got me thinking about our acting careers: you don’t give up after one mediocre audition or because you don’t get a callback, right?
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