Backstage

Backstage is a wonderful place to be. It's the start of all dreams, and the anticipation of realising it. Backstage leaves no room for the contemplation of failure. Backstage demands that you believe in yourself, that you're capable of what you set out to achieve.

Backstage compiles all the collective fears you've ever had, and forces you to get rid of it. Granted, backstage is going to be the darkest place you've ever seen. No lights, the air swimming with fear, nerves tingling in your toes.

Yet in the midst of all the uncertainty, backstage is where you discover the reason you put yourself through this. It's where you drive dark thoughts out of yourself and leave only the shining ones.

Backstage is such a wonderful place to be, not because it is wonderful in itself, but it pushes you towards the most wonderful realisation. In adversity we find strength, which would otherwise be useless without the prospect of facing our fears.