Well, things have gotten slightly better... as much as that's possible :) We are still working very hard on the production, and things are moving along better :)
We did our first school show today at Chai Chee Secondary School, courtesy of my Sec 4 English teacher, Mrs. Pereira :) It was wonderful to be in a school with her again, albeit not teacher-student anymore :)
The show went all right, with a few hiccups along the way. It was good in the sense that I was able to see what the production was doing well and right, as well as those that were not :) Very good perspective to have right now, so at least I'm able to put in some corrective measures for the cast and crew :)
I'm beginning to realise that I have very high expectations of others. This is probably because I have very high expectations of myself :) Perhaps it's not very fair to those around me, or those working with me, but I believe that, without high expectations, there can be no great achievements.
The thing about it is: the leads to disappointment a lot of the times. There is nothing as painful as seeing someone with tremendous potential not realising that potential.
That is perhaps what happens on a day-to-day basis... trying to help others to realise their potential, sometimes against their very own mindsets.
I heard some words off a Carpenters song which went "The hardest thing I've ever done is to keep believing..."
Indeed :)
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