* At 24 I quit a job with a salary and benefits so I could wait tables and be an actress. * When I was 19 I turned down an internship doing PR for garden supplies, and I spontaneously drove to Cape Cod in my 19 to live near the beach with my college roommate. It was June of my senior year of high school, and a good month for wildness. * Also that month, I quit my job at the tanning salon/juice bar/coffee house where I worked so I could go to a Bruce Springsteen concert because I wasn’t able to get my shift covered. * The same month, a group of friends including a guy I had a crush on pulled up in front of my house one night, and my crush asked me to dance in the middle of the street as “At This Moment” by Billy Vera and The Beaters played on his car radio, and I said Yes. * Senior year I cut Honors Physics class and went to the beach with two of my best friends in a red 1973 Alfa Romeo convertible.
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We sped down Old Montauk Highway in the pitch black night with the windows down and the sunroof open blasting “Ultraviolet” by U2 and my stomach did flip-flops like I was on a roller coaster. * The summer after my junior year, I told my Mom I was staying at my friend’s house and instead we went to Montauk with the guys we were seeing. I threw up that morning before I went to school and was on the verge of throwing up through the whole exam. * The night before my French final sophomore year of high school, I went to the local dive bar and got drunk on Sex on the Beaches. These are some times in my life I was wild: And this got me thinking about what it means to be wild, and what the costs are of letting ourselves be tamed. Then I tweeted this quote which led to a conversation with several people on Twitter about times in our lives when we were wild. To only say the things that are nice and acceptable and polite, and stuff down everything else. To feel neat, quiet feelings and never be emotionally messy and loud, and if I am, to quiet it down and clean it up fast, and if that doesn’t work then just hide it so no one can see. I kept thinking about this quote, about how I feel wild inside and do not ever want to be tamed, to follow the path I’m supposed to follow or do the things I should do or want the things I’m told to want.
It doesn’t trust wildness, and it certainly does not value or encourage wildness.Ī few days later, I attended a symposium about gender parity in theatre, and playwright Tina Howe spoke about being very conscious that as a woman, when she is frisky or confrontational or wild in her writing, when she writes about ideas that society does not embrace and does not want to hear, she gets her wrists slapped (in particular, by the critics). And it occurred to me that society does not like wildness. It reminded me of my own wildness, that I sometimes allow myself to feel and occasionally allow myself to act on and more often feel the pressure to suppress. And it hit me as something that is very, very true. Last week, a yoga teacher read this quote at the end of class. Don’t let them tame you.” -Isadora Duncan
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