As I was growing up, each day I was more and more serious about my dream of being an actress. When I watched films and theatre plays, I could see my self on the big screen and on stage. As a kid I always said I wanted to be an actress when I grew up, even though my parents thought It was just the typical “little girl dream” and they ignored it. But I was more certain about my dream each year. I didn’t do anything to make it happen though. I just saw it as a beautiful an impossible dream, plus my parents were against it… What could I do? They always thought that the acting world was a “sh*tty little world”, where everything was about prostitution and drugs. At the beginning that terrified me. However, I kept dreaming about it as years went by.
Later on, I couldn’t just ignore it anymore. I was certain that acting was the only thing I could see myself doing in the future, the only thing I really wanted to do. As much as I tried to ignore it, acting was a profound desire from my soul.
They hadn’t really been into that “little world” to know how it was, what people did or how It felt to be on stage in front of one thousand people. If you don’t experience something, you can’t have an opinion about it, right? But that’s the typical idea people from the outside have. Saying that, you can dive right into that “sh*t” voluntarily no matter what career you choose. That’s not about your profession but about your education, the values your family taught you when you were a kid and the friends you decide to have. That “sh*t” exists amongst doctors, architects, lawyers, astronauts and even actors. But it’s only up to you whether you choose to get into it or to go through “the right path”.
My parents did a wonderful job educating me, -sometimes a little too protectives, I’ll say- but they did great. As I grew up I started valuing it more, and undoubtedly, If I ever decide to have kids, I’ll use a lot of what they taught me. I am who I am thanks to them. -Thanks Mom and Dad! I love you and I am deeply grateful for everything you’ve taught me and gave me all these years-
I had it very clear that cigarettes, drugs and prostitution weren’t my thing. I never had the curiosity of trying it either. I was sure that if I’d come across those things, I’ll identify it and reject it. My parents education was in me already, their job was done. Now it was my turn to get rid of their fears and to have my own experiences.
After few confrontations with my parents I got them to understand that I could and I will walk down the “good path”, rejecting everything that wasn’t good for me. They did their bit, now they had to let go of me and allow me to walk my own path by myself. Dare myself to live and to dream, make mistakes, learn from them, grow and fly, fly very high.
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I apologize, let’s go back to the story. In 2001 I went to the theatre in Argentina, to watch a play with my family. After the show, I met one of the actors, he also was in a very popular TV show at that time. We hit it off and exchanged email addresses -So old-fashioned- we started chatting regularly. I told him about my dream and that I didn’t see it possible, I didn’t dare. He encouraged me to dream and to go after my dreams and told me that if I really wanted to act, I should go for it and start studying Dramatic Arts. Those words were super valuable to me. I was so young but they came to me at the right time, and they were even more special because an already-famous actor was telling me them. After few months, this actor suddenly disappeared of my life. We lost contact overnight and never heard from him again. It was a shame because we became friends and spoke nearly every day on Messenger, we even video-called one another sometimes. With time I understood the meaning of him coming to my life, I had to meet him so he’d encourage me to be a dreamer...

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