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Uncertainty

At times in our life, and our career we have moments of serious uncertainty. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our abilities and we often doubt our place in this crazy business called Show.

If you feel this way, you are not alone. Artists of all kinds tend to experience the crisis of uncertainty from time to time, even the greatest, and sometimes with severely crippling effects.

But you need to know something. Uncertainty is just a state of mind, it is not real. We can fuck up, we can fail, we can do a bad job, fail to click with a team, it can all go to hell, and you know what? You just need to start again, even if that means right from the start.

We are destined to do this thing, this arts thing, this acting thing. To us, it’s not just some fun thing to do, but the thing that makes us feel replete. No person, no thing, no experience can replace this for us. We often try to move away from, Lord, I’ve tried, but it keeps coming back.

And when you screw up, or things don’t go your way, or you lose faith in yourself, you will be engulfed with a wave of uncertainty.

Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. And start all over again. That’s the lesson for today, life, work, all of it, it will throw some serious shit our way, you really must accept it as part of the whole shebang, and…

Pick yourself up….etc.

Anyways, I’m probably riding an elephant or something in Sri Lanka right now so….

Until next time

To You, The Best

Mark