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Mikey Scott
comedian. life by me’er. spaghetti rock star.
Mikey Scott, lifebyme’s resident funny man, knows his bio today is different from yesterday’s and will change by tomorrow. That’s what makes life so fun. www.mikeyscott.com
I was scared to write this. Odd that a guy who works for lifebyme.com, helping to share all these incredible stories, would be terrified to write his own, right? I’m inspired by these stories daily, but when it came time to write mine, I thought, What have I done that’s so extraordinary? I made a pretty mean spaghetti last night, but even that I attribute to my good pal Trader Joe.
Don’t we all battle the urge to compare ourselves to others? I should have abs like Brad Pitt. I should have the career of Dane Cook. I should … But when I ask myself, If I could re-do my life, what would I make different?, my answer is Absolutely nothing. My life has been a series of trials, errors, swerves, turns, laughs, tears, and more laughs to get me to the point I am now. The only real “should” is that I should give myself a break and love who I am, where I am, and how I got here.
A couple of years after moving to Hollywood, I felt my life going in an unfulfilling direction. I was the fun actor who drank too much, auditioned too little, and somehow managed to recover from the oddest of predicaments. I’ve never been able to pretend that my life is different from how it is. If I was broke, I didn’t talk about my last trip to Barney’s. If I woke up in a strange house, my friends knew about it the next day. I owned my experiences. I made them into stories. Funny and honest stories. Suddenly, I found out I was funny. It took all those ups and downs in my life for me to discover that stand-up comedy is my passion.
Imperfections make life perfect. When I’m on stage, that’s what I explore. I’m a very personal comic. If it’s going on in my life, the audience knows. When life changes, so does my act. When someone sees me on stage, they see me.
When I look at my life as it is, own it, and love it, then I can decide where I’m going from here. If I’m going to GPS my next destination, I need to know my origin point or that robotic lady won’t know what to tell me. If I own where I am now, I own my future. And it’s looking pretty damn good. (And, yes, I’m taking that mean spaghetti along with me.)
- Mikey Scott
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