NoAmbition
11-20-2008, 06:43 AM
Hey,
My name is Michael. I was living homeless on the streets of brisbane for two years. My father had gone to prison and my mother had just died, the rest of my brothers and sisters just took off refusing to be responsible for the messs that was me and there I was all alone.
Of course this was a terrible time for me. I developed pretty bad anxiety disorder which still effects my life many years later but I will always be grateful for that Time that I had on the streets. It made me who I am and it gave me my ambition.
During this time I began to have little fantasies and scenarios in my mind and would always come up with funny idead or jokes... So one day I began writing them down. Soon after I had half a book full of ideas which I then decided to use to create a comedy show. Every day and every night I sat around writing this comedy show and after two years of being scared and abused and alone and almost breaking down, I decided I had to get off the street and do something with it.
Of course I was a little bit messed up so the way I did this is not right... Something I still feel ashamed of.
I started stealing, small amounts at first and then it lead to rather large amounts. Until one day I came across a rather large amount from a friend. I ripped him off and used the money to clean myself up a little. I called my sister and told her that I had a job earning heaps of money and eventually she let me move in with her.
But that money soon started running out. I took more and more and destoryed every friendship I had at the time until I realised I couldn't do it anymore. Every morning I'd stay up until 5am and steal the papers off peoples lawns looking for jobs.. Eventually I found one that I got as a dishwasher.
After only a few months of washing dishes, it was decided they would move me up into the kitchen and I worked harder than anyone else and got a fulltime position as a cook. It was at that job where I had to become a good person as my habits were lying and stealing. Those were hard habits to break but after a year of losing friends and alienating people, I started to figure it out.
Since then I've become quite a good cook and have been working successfully in the industry ever since. I made it a rule not to lie or steal (no matter how small) and I haven't since.
After I got off the street, all of my scripts and jokes were destoryed but I still had them in my head and have spent the last few years re writing all of them again. I am finally happy with it and am now on the road to trying to get someone to produce it and have just started searching for an agent.
And the shows theme... homeless kids. It tells of many situations I was in but looks at them in a comedic way.
My name is Michael. I was living homeless on the streets of brisbane for two years. My father had gone to prison and my mother had just died, the rest of my brothers and sisters just took off refusing to be responsible for the messs that was me and there I was all alone.
Of course this was a terrible time for me. I developed pretty bad anxiety disorder which still effects my life many years later but I will always be grateful for that Time that I had on the streets. It made me who I am and it gave me my ambition.
During this time I began to have little fantasies and scenarios in my mind and would always come up with funny idead or jokes... So one day I began writing them down. Soon after I had half a book full of ideas which I then decided to use to create a comedy show. Every day and every night I sat around writing this comedy show and after two years of being scared and abused and alone and almost breaking down, I decided I had to get off the street and do something with it.
Of course I was a little bit messed up so the way I did this is not right... Something I still feel ashamed of.
I started stealing, small amounts at first and then it lead to rather large amounts. Until one day I came across a rather large amount from a friend. I ripped him off and used the money to clean myself up a little. I called my sister and told her that I had a job earning heaps of money and eventually she let me move in with her.
But that money soon started running out. I took more and more and destoryed every friendship I had at the time until I realised I couldn't do it anymore. Every morning I'd stay up until 5am and steal the papers off peoples lawns looking for jobs.. Eventually I found one that I got as a dishwasher.
After only a few months of washing dishes, it was decided they would move me up into the kitchen and I worked harder than anyone else and got a fulltime position as a cook. It was at that job where I had to become a good person as my habits were lying and stealing. Those were hard habits to break but after a year of losing friends and alienating people, I started to figure it out.
Since then I've become quite a good cook and have been working successfully in the industry ever since. I made it a rule not to lie or steal (no matter how small) and I haven't since.
After I got off the street, all of my scripts and jokes were destoryed but I still had them in my head and have spent the last few years re writing all of them again. I am finally happy with it and am now on the road to trying to get someone to produce it and have just started searching for an agent.
And the shows theme... homeless kids. It tells of many situations I was in but looks at them in a comedic way.