"There's a couple of things I've learned..."

They say you can't go home again. They say time heals all wounds. They say many, many things. They may just be right. After a summer I won't soon forget, I packed up my life, loaded up Sally, and drove off. 8 hours later I was back at the place I felt like I had just left days prior, Varner Hall. That's right, I drove straight to school, do not pass go (go home), do not collect $200 (much needed sleep). Straight into a room where people had gathered to begin the process of the first musical. A musical which I am stage managing, hence the me being there. And as I sat there, (which I actually did very little of as I wandered around the building, letting various people know I was back) I came to the conclusion I must really love this fucking theatre world. Because if I didn't, why the hell was I doing this to myself. Why was I going from a rehearsal into tech for another show the day I got back? Why was I sitting in a room, in a state I didn't want to be any where near(still don't, but that's a tale for a different day) doing the same thing. Why am I doing this? Why did I ask for so much this year? I could've requested to not have many assignments at all. Just focus on my remaining classes and get my ass back out into the real world I now so desperately long for. Maybe I'm really full of myself, but I don't see how much more I can learn here. Yes the experience alone will teach me, but so would experience outside of school. It's not like I need to add even more college credit to my already packed resume. And I'm not certainly not getting paid like I so desperately need to be. So what can I do to make this worth while for me? They also say everything happens for a reason. Perhaps. Perhaps I am here, not to learn, but to teach. And not teach in the actual sense, because that's what teachers are for, but to impart the vast number of things I've learned in both the last 4 years as well as the last 3 months to anyone and everyone willing to listen. I don't know much. In fact, I know very little. But what I do know, I know pretty damn well. So I will show the newbies the ropes, blur the lines between the factions as best I can, mend rifts I've created. When I was an underclassmen, I looked up to a handful of people, and based on what they did, and how they acted, I learned enough to make my own way through college. I guess its now my turn.