Role The Play

Keren Levi-Faran
Nov 8, 2023
2 min read

The roles we play begin to shift when truth steps in. Every role reveals what the heart is almost ready to say.

When the Curtain Rises

You step into the room.

Something shifts.

A smile, a nod, a posture.

You adjust, maybe without noticing.

Are you the helper?

The one who knows?

The one who stays quiet, makes peace, keeps moving?

You didn’t choose a role.

You responded.

To the room.

To the story.

To what once felt safest.

But the script you learned might no longer fit the self you’re becoming.

Typecast Without Trying

We all play roles.

Not just on stages but in families, friendships, work, and love.

Some we learned to survive.

Some we performed to be accepted.

Some we still wear long after they stopped feeling true.

Roles aren't lies.

They’re strategies.

But when you never step out of character, you forget: you were never just the part.

You were always the person beneath it.

Off Script, On Purpose

Growth isn’t becoming someone else.

It’s remembering who got left backstage.

The “good girl.” The “fixer.” The “strong one.” The “observer.”

They weren’t wrong.

They just weren’t whole.

You’re allowed to rewrite the scene.

To audition new ways of being.

To play instead of perform.

This isn’t anyone’s stage but yours.

Scripts I Never Chose

What role do I find myself slipping into without choosing it?

Where did I learn to play it?

What part of me is tired of performing?

What would it feel like to respond instead of rehearse?

“I found my voice not in pretending to be someone else, but in finally saying what I had silenced as myself.”

Viola Davis

Final Bow

You’ve learned the part well.

You know when to speak when to stay still, and how to read a room before it reads you.

But there is more than the part.

There is the person.

Still waiting backstage, not for a spotlight but for space to be real.

You don’t need to be perfect.

Only present.

You’re invited to try it softly.

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