The Comfy Corner

Okay, comfy cornerers, I know that I try to keep posts light and fun, but sometimes, life is serious (very rarely, though). I have a couple pearls of wisdom I have come upon due to recent experiences that I thought I might share with all of you so that you may take it out into the world and make some changes for the better. Hopefully Heidi Montag is reading this (through her tears of sorrow over the death of her plastic surgeon, aka a death in the family...too soon?).

So I have come to realize that everything happens for a reason and thus we should never take anything for granted. Inspiration can come from the most unexpected of places. For instance, I sometimes get inspired to eat a healthy salad and go to the gym after watching an overweight man order two butter cakes for himself. Or I am inspired (or guilt tripped) into going to more dance classes after seeing an amazing dancer. Sometimes, however, it is difficult to find the good in certain situations. For example, I have been working at the this gym in Boston for about a year now. I opened the gym three times a week promptly at 5:30am. It is early, it is boring, I hate it. And today, I was folding the 578th towel of the day thinking mixed thoughts of suicide and quitting the job for good, when the fitness manager came up to chat. He asked me what I did and I told him that I went to Emerson College for musical theatre. He replied, "Stop, drop and roll!" An odd response, but I decided to hear him out. Turns out he graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon, one of the most prestigious MT conservatories in the country. He went to school with Sutton Foster and Billy Porter! He did a European tour of "42nd Street" and did the West Coast premiere of "This is our Youth." So we ended up having a two hour conversation about the business and my plans post graduation. The conversation ended with him saying "We are not finished here. We have a year to get you in shape. I wanna see your material, we need to get you working out and we are going to get you a job in NYC. No excuses." So after a year of opening this gym with bleary eyes, drinking lots of coffee and folding lots of towels, I finally found out the reason why I was there. I found a mentor of sorts!

So comfy cornerers, I have this to say: sometimes it is worth suffering the bad to reap the benefits that result. The good will eventually reveal itself. After all, we can't truly appreciate the pleasures in life without first being without them. As that dude says in "Eat, Pray, Love" - "Why won't you give me the chance to miss you?"