I've done the Vagina Monologues for the past two years. I've only done small parts, but it’s been fun because it contributes to something I have chosen to dedicate my life to—helping women.
This year, I wasn’t chosen to be a part of the cast. To say I'm crushed would be an understatement, but I know there is no use crying over spilled milk.
Your life doesn’t always work out the way you want. Eve Ensler, the author of the Vagina Monologues, is living proof of that. She was sexually and physically abused by her father as a child. What did she do? She kept going.
The point I am making here is that we will work hard for things that don’t work out. We will dream for things that never come to fruition. We will fight battles and lose them repeatedly.
We have to keep going.
You get an “F” on a test? Keep going. You lose your job? Keep going. You have a bad break-up? Keep going. You lose a friend? Keep going. Feel like someone got what you deserved? Keep going. Got rejected from an organization? Keep going.
Life is like walking through a snowstorm. You are going to get pushed back by the wind and it will seem like you’re not going fast enough when you’re moving forward, but you have to keep going.
It’s not easy. You will be sad and bitter. I can definitely say I’ve thought about sending an angry e-mail demanding to know how someone who has been working so hard for women and knows so much about the V-DAY organization, who put on the monologues and sponsor other programs for women, can be so easily over-looked. But that wouldn’t change anything. It would probably make things worse.
Like I said, there’s no use crying over spilled milk.
Yes, I did work for two years, and spent the last year waiting to audition again, just to be disappointed, but I will keep going. I will keep devoting my life to helping women achieve their potential because I know there is something greater out there for me.
When the wind in your snowstorm pushes you back, just keep going. Keep fighting for what you want and what you dream for. At times, you will be sad. At time, you will be bitter.
Through it all you have to remember there’s something bigger out there for you. You’ll miss it if you waste your time wallowing in sadness instead of moving forward and reaching your destiny.
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