Once Upon a Time: On Broadway

I know it has been a while. Here is a new story. Happy Thanksgiving!

-Skai

Once Upon a Time: On Broadway

Once upon a time there was a little girl with a big dream. She wanted to be a Broadway singer. When she was little she would watch musicals, learn all the lines. Practice all the songs. Without a doubt in her mind when she grew up she would move to New York to become an actress.

Only as this little girl grew she lost her vision. She got distracted by school and boys. And constantly looking for her parents’ approval. They wanted her to go to college, and get married…and have a family. If not on purpose, they convinced her that only crazy people are on Broadway.

So she grew up and didn’t go to Broadway. She went to community college and then to a nearby university. After graduating from college she got a job as a news reporter.

She spent years reporting everything that everyone else accomplished. Years past without any change. She woke up each morning, went to work, came home, and went to bed. The following day she did it again. Her vacations and free time was spent with friends or family, traveling or having fun.

One day, after she had started dying her hair to cover grays and smothering her face with anti-aging cream, she was on her way to work listening to a musical she used to sing with as a little girl. All her old dreams and plans came flooding back to her. Along with regret. She couldn’t comprehend how she had let the years slip away.

Not long after that she quit her job, moved out of her apartment, and packed her car with only the possessions she would need. And she left for New York. She left the happiest she had been in a long time even though she didn’t know what challenges lay before her.

It is still unknown if she made it to New York, or ever got on a Broadway show. She left only yesterday. The rest of her story remains to be written.