Tuesday, I quit you.
Today was a day for the books. Life lessons are hard as it is, but even harder when you've worked so hard for something. She had her first junior high musical audition today. She's been working on her monologue and song for weeks. She signed up for her time slot and was ready to go. We decided to practice in the car and have a snack between the end of school and her audition. Long story short, they were running early and basically disregarded the sign-up schedule. What started as excited and prepared turned into rushed and scattered. When you are dealing with a high anxiety child, who is very hard on herself, and who finds it difficult to get out of her head when things don't go smoothly...this kind of thing equals complete melt-down.
Not what you want prior to your audition.
Learning to cope with disappointment in yourself, cope with setbacks, and cope with swallowing your nerves and persevering is tough for anyone, especially a 12 year old.
Callbacks are posted tonight. Outcome to be determined.
I was a little afraid that she would throw in the towel.
I was a little afraid this would break her confidence for future auditions of any sort.
It did neither.
She is a talented little human and I couldn't be more proud.
