As actors…
We have to be OK…
With allowing our instrument to experience discomfort…
We cannot shy away from it…
For it is that very discomfort…
That is the exact ingredient…
To fulfilling the most complex realities…
Of the most complicated of life’s circumstances…
Our discomfort is pregnant with the substance…
Needed to be utilized in our work…
It is through our instrument…
That we become the vessel…
To living the most complex…
The most complicated…
And even the most inexplicable…
Private essence of the human condition…
In a very public way…
And in order to do that…
We have to strive to make our history…
And our inner life/world…
Within those circumstances…
So vast…
So full…
So specific…
And so delicious…
That it/they stimulate…
And maintain…
All of our attention…
To take the risk…
To uninhibitedly go after our needs…
Moment to unknown moment…
With the true nature of action…
That exists…
And necessary…
Within the world of the text…
And to help us along that journey…
We may need to utilize specific tools…
That allow that inner world to fill…
And experience those circumstances…
So we can actively live those circumstances…
With a truthful raw…
Authentic…
Unpredictably moment to unknown moment…
Honest life force…
It is through specific tools…
Using our own personal experiential vocabulary + imagination…
And the marriage of the two…
And our willingness and courage…
That we stimulate our inner world…
To actually experience…
And believe/have faith in…
The most complex circumstances…
So we can then actively live those circumstances…
In service of, to and for our work…
But we must continue to exercise our work!…
Even during these unprecedented time…
We must not get discouraged…
And we must not give up…
The obstacles we face…
And the stakes that they heighten…
Must fuel the energy…
And the intention…
We put forth…
When it comes to our active pursuit…
In achieving our Life’s objectives…
If we spend all of our energy…
Allowing our obstacles…
To be the excuses of why ‘we can’t’…
We simply do not give the energy…
To our Life’s objectives…
That they need and deserve…
Let not fear…
Doubt…
Or uncertainty…
Rob you of the very thing you love…
Let it fuel the flames of your passion…
To adapt…
Adjust…
Find a way…
And overcome!…
Allow the passion in your heart…
And the fire in your belly…
To be the fuel…
That keeps you persevering forward…
Despite everything ‘out there’…
That may attempt to keep you from persevering forward…
You are more powerful than you have been led to believe, dear Artists….
You are essential…
The only way to lose sight of the dream…
Is by giving up on it….
So don’t give up!
Continue to invest the necessary sweat equity…
Into what you want to make happen for yourself…
We must remember…
We get what we put into the dream…
And the Universe…
Undeniably meets us where we are…
And responds accordingly….
So persevere, dear Artists…
Stay safe…
Stay mindful…
Stay creative…
Stay on purpose…
Stay on the path of the dream!
Much Love,
Mario Campanaro
