Gratitude

About gratitude.
The things that I gratify doing and that I know is missing in my life right now is to make and play in musicals. I became a member of my high school's English musical club when I came back to Japan from Spain after 9th grade. At first I wasn't a great fan of musicals. Being effected by the whole stream of High School Musical, I used to find them kind of childish. Plus, I used to have the idea that performing on stage wasn't a thing for me. My intentions of becoming a member of this club was mostly to maintain my English skills. However, my views on musicals completely changed once I started performing them. I've never found anything more exciting and thrilling in my life than singing, dancing, and acting on stage. Although this club was one of the most toughest clubs in the entire school having practice 6 days a week, I dedicated my time and effort in realizing that common goal to make this piece to a success with the other 70 members of my club.

One scene of the musical "Fame"

Not only did being a part of ESS made my three years in high school satisfying but it also gave me a clue of what I want to do in the future as a job for a living. I realized how I loved changing other people's feeling by my actions. When you're playing a role in a musical, you have the power to make the audience happy, sad, overwhelmed, impressed, passionate, or any other feelings that could exist. The moment is all yours. That's what I love about musicals. And that also connects to the volunteer activity that I am now doing outside of college. Watching people motivated throughout my accomplishments satisfies my life. 

During my four years in college, I would like to find the thing that I really want to do using the clue that I found in high school :)