Hello Loyal Laughers,
This past weekend I was thrilled to jump back on stage to dust the rust off and see if I was still able to do one of the things I love most in this life – make people laugh.
I was given the opportunity to do a 10-minute set on a line-up packed with other hilarious ladies. It was a stressful week. I wrote some new material the day before the show. I thought through it all over and over and critiqued the crap out of the jokes and myself.
Long story short, I knew that even in the moments of doubt, I needed to try again. Even though I worried that maybe I’m on the wrong path with my life; my career. And I harnessed that fear and put myself through the experience because one of two things could happen.
1. I would bomb. Which would have really sucked because this was also the first time my boyfriend was to see me on stage, since we met, by some miracle, during a pandemic.
2. I would do well. People would laugh. I would remember WHY I loved doing such a wild thing for a career.
Either way, it was going to help me make much-needed decisions about how to focus my time and attention as we pull out of this weirdness and move into whatever our new normal is for life. Whatever the new normal is that WE get to CREATE.
I could tell you which of the 2 it ended up being for me over the weekend, but that could discount the point that we sometimes HAVE to do things in order to continue experiencing our lives to the fullest and learning how to hone in our best self, whatever that may be for the moment.
What I was reminded of, is that all of the most satisfying things in my life have come through pushing through the “what-ifs” and lean into the pain of exploration, growth, and putting our own desires to the test to make sure they DESERVE to be part of our life.
Cheers to Happier, Healthier Human Connections through Humor,
Megan McCaleb
