{"id":1157,"date":"2024-03-29T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:51:15","slug":"its-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/its-never-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Never Too Late…."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was my midlife crisis… Having never acted before (not even at school), I booked a theatre in Covent Garden, rehearsed for 18 months, and put on a one woman show playing all 17 parts. I did this mostly to get over the fear that had secretly crept up on me (that creeps up exponentially on a lot of us in our late 40s).<\/p>\n

↪ It\u2019s a type of fear that you develop a strange Stockholm syndrome relationship with, the one that makes you fall in love with the confines of a comfort zone, you know it\u2019s toxic but you can’t seem to escape.<\/p>\n

↪ I also produced the show on because I was tired of hearing that there is no market for a 50-something Asian woman. We are invisible. 😢<\/p>\n

Doing the show was the most terrifying\/exhilarating thing that I have ever done.<\/p>\n

The play wanted to be a novel and I did everything I could not to write it -but I did and it took me four years. I was offered a fourth book deal with HarperCollins and for various reasons, had to turn it down. Fear faithfully accompanying me, whispering that it would never see the light of day if I turned down that deal.<\/p>\n

As Elizabeth Gilbert says fear \u201cis boring, because it only ever has one thing to say to us, and that thing is: “STOP!\u201d<\/p>\n

➡ Don\u2019t let anyone define who you are and tell you what you can or cannot do.
\n➡ I have found trying to overcome fear before starting anything is pointless.
\n➡ Invite fear along the journey but don\u2019t let it drive 😊<\/p>\n

🚀 Paperback launch today in Germany 🇩🇪\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More to follow…<\/p>\n

#<\/span>Keepgoing<\/a>
\n#<\/span>tellyourselfanotherstory<\/a>
\n#<\/span>DieFreischwimmerin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was my midlife crisis… Having never acted before (not even at school), I booked a theatre in Covent Garden, rehearsed for 18 months, and put on a one woman show playing all 17 parts. I did this mostly to get over the fear that had secretly crept up on me (that creeps up exponentially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6M31y-iF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}