lights, camera, action!

it was then that she realized, she lived her life like theatre play. she would constantly rehearse the lines in her head, the various scenarios, then go out and give a mediocre performance when show time rolled around. it was all so fake; so mundane. life is real, it's here, it's now! she realized that to continue this theatre life would be living a lie; and so, she shook the lines out of her head, like the screen of a child's etch-a-sketch, took in a deep, cool breath and walked out of the building, toward her new life, unrehearsed, unprepared, but filled to the brim with a certain kind of courage that would make mountains waver at her feet.