Sadness.

Peter Pan is over. For good this time.

I heard a lot of people say "I get my life back now!"... but what if this IS your life? What if this is one of those things you enjoy doing the most? What if you'd rather go to a thousand more long rehearsals than have to go home after school...

Yeah 6 hours of sleep sucks... and maybe you break out a little more than usual during the stretch of the musical. When you look back on your life, are those little things going to matter?

During this musical, I found that there was more drama backstage than on stage. Some people were close to ripping each other apart. Even I was a part of some drama...

BUT the great thing about it all was that when the last show came, no one cared. Conflict was resolved for a few hours and the cast was at peace. We were all just trying to soak in all of the people and everything that would become part of a memory we had to leave behind.

I heard a few people talking about the "theater high". Basically, during this "high" you are obsessed with every picture and inside joke and friend you made during the show for a few weeks after closing. You say, "we should hang out!" or "I miss you so much!"... then once this high dies down, you find yourself in the same place before the musical, almost as if it had never happened.

As true as this can be, I think that extra-curriculars like theater do a good job of expanding the horizons of the average teenager. You may not become best friends with anyone, but it creates a solid base that can be built upon over time.


I will come right out and say that at the beginning of the musical I had a very hard time judging people and I had already decided how I felt about them. I soon found myself wanting to know why I made these judgments so I stepped out of my comfort zone a little and found how great they actually were. Almost every judgement I made at the beginning, turned almost completely around by the end. I wish we could all do that more often.

I guess it's natural or us to be sad when something ends, but I don't necessarily think it's a good idea to sit around and mope about it when that is time you are wasting to be those people again.