It didn't start out as anything special. 9 am and a 10 am math class following has never spelled out perfection for me. Even my voice for the stage class wasn't anything special. I was told that I was doing much better on my Shakespeare Monologue so that's a good thing. Then my mom get here, and this is where the perfect part of the day started.
We went to Rea's memorial. He is one of the only people I know that could almost fill up the springer opera house with people just there to remember him. It was hard to watch all of those pictures go by of him, but at the same time I could have sat and watched it all day. Every word the speakers said about him was so very true and it was great to remember all those things about Rea. The first speaker shared a story about the first time that he meet Rea and when the man couldn't pronounce his name Rea gave him an easy way to remember it. We are close. Always remember we are close. I can't think of a more perfect was to remember him. They where making this weaved tapestry for him. It was so colorful and cheerful.More on why this is relevant in a moment. Through all the tears there was an abundance of love.
I left the memorial and had to head straight to the theatre for call. After some minor stressing out over the fact that our costumes had not been fixed from the night before we where just about ready to go on. The cast meet with Dur out in the hallway. He told us how proud he was of us and how excited he was for the show and that we where going to do great. Then we talked about how we where doing this show for Rea. Caroline told this great story about how she was driving down the road listening to why we tell the story and right as it got to the line "you are why" she passed the Springer. This show was all for him and we know that. And before we went on, if we even got a little nervous we just told ourselves that Rea was out there watching us and we knew everything was going to be ok.
It was one of the best runs of the show that we have ever had, and the audience loved it. During the last song,"we tell the story" we got started singing the "life is why, pain is why,ect." And I almost lost it. The last line is " Our live become the stories that we weave". I locked eyes withe India. She realized it too. It was perfect, and it made a lot of audience members cry. The last pose went and the lights started to go down, before we where even in complete black out Dur was on his feet cheering us on and clapping. He rushed back stages balling hugging us all and telling us that he loved his. We knew Rea was proud. We where proud. It had been a long ride, but we had done our best.
I had this dream last night. Rea was in it. He gave me this giant hug. Told me he loved me. He wouldn't let go. I was so happy. When I woke up this morning I wasn't sad. It was like I got to say a final goodbye. I got my goodbye that I didn't get in real life.
Today will be a wonderful day because I have made a positive change in my life. I've made a choice to be all I can, because I know things will work out right if I have faith. I can do anything if I try. I know that I can, I know that I will. Today!
