What makes me happy?

While thinking about what to do while healing from shoulder surgery and after I decided to start with this question: What truly makes me happy?

Here are some thoughts...

1. Making videos

2. Being in a great improv show

3. Acting- the idea of being in a great movie or commercial

4. The possibility of kids in the future. Along with that is the hope that I would be a good dad.

5. Having friends. With deep relationships. There are so many relationships that after all is said and done it's the deep relationships that really matter.

6. Being proud of myself.

Sweet dreams are made of these hard work.

I'm convinced that I'll be famous some day. Or at least enough to pay the rent on a nice house. Somewhere deep in cebral cortex of my brain it's the idea of loving life & having fun while working. Like Seinfeld in "Seinfeld" his "normal" life was funny and then his "job" as a standup comedy. The two seemed to twine into one. That's the kind of life I want. What a sweet dream.

Just saying it out loud I know that it takes work to make all these dreams come true. But I wish I saw just a glimpse of it so I could at least know that I won't be stuck in a spiral of dreaming.

I have had the dream come true to marry a beautiful wife. No we our on our journey of acting, food and writing-ish. Any way to make something worthwhile. Worthwhile and able to pay rent.

Thank you God for what you've given us. Let's not take it for granted and enjoy it.

Peace,
Dan Braswell

Shoulder Surgery

So 14 days ago I had shoulder surgery to fix my "labral tear". Today I'm sitting in my apartment with the rain sort of trapping me in. I can't go out and audition, I can't do any improv. I can't go to acting class.

So what CAN I do? I think about writing. But I don't write. So that's why I started "blogging". Something I started 6 years ago and never worked on it.

So here are some ideas I'd like to flesh out.
1. Meditation
2. Sketch writing- should I take some writing class?
3. Acting- how long should I keep doing this? I'd love to do it forever. But I just got married a year ago, I know some time I might have kids. And when that does happen I'd like to have the time to raise them. Instead of working at Starbucks all day long then coming home and not having any energy or time to act. It would mean giving up on those dreams. So in the mean time I'll pray and follow God's lead.