Big congrats on your maiden voyage into standup! I love seeing people push outside their comfort zones (which I know public speaking is well within it, but I mean the comedy part)
I was cringing as I read your account of the others, though. I've never been able to watch people perform badly -- it's always as painful for me as if it were me, which is why I don't think I could deal with a comedy open mic. I suppose it's some kind of overdeveloped experience of empathy that ultimately does not serve me or anyone else, really,.
Some of the people were indeed painful to watch because you just want to shake them and say "What are you doing?!?" and then calmly explain why school shooting jokes are a bad idea for them.
congrats on the show! as for healthy living, I'm guilty of the same thing - of mentioning healthy stuff I do, in the interest of making it somehow 'normalize' it for the rest of the world, while I feel lonelier & lonelier in terms of self care. binge watching Murder She Wrote - what happened to early 1980s where jogging & working out were a common things that characters would do in their spare time?
Big congrats on your maiden voyage into standup! I love seeing people push outside their comfort zones (which I know public speaking is well within it, but I mean the comedy part)
I was cringing as I read your account of the others, though. I've never been able to watch people perform badly -- it's always as painful for me as if it were me, which is why I don't think I could deal with a comedy open mic. I suppose it's some kind of overdeveloped experience of empathy that ultimately does not serve me or anyone else, really,.
Some of the people were indeed painful to watch because you just want to shake them and say "What are you doing?!?" and then calmly explain why school shooting jokes are a bad idea for them.
Bravo on pushing through the headwinds of nerves!
congrats on the show! as for healthy living, I'm guilty of the same thing - of mentioning healthy stuff I do, in the interest of making it somehow 'normalize' it for the rest of the world, while I feel lonelier & lonelier in terms of self care. binge watching Murder She Wrote - what happened to early 1980s where jogging & working out were a common things that characters would do in their spare time?
Lots of people talk about self-care these days, but that doesn't always overlap with fitness since many people don't find exercise very pleasurable.