Are you gonna do it or not?

Freshman year.
I sat on the green show stage at Southern Utah university. I was overwhelmed and I had just felt seriously impressed to change my major. All my plans and directions in life were about to take a major path change. I was surrounded by loud and passionate people and I was quiet and shy and terrified. It was a gloriously sunny and slightly chilled day. It was the beginning of spring just like today.

Bradford Garrison walked up to me. I knew him because one day I was singing "Saturday's Warrior" to myself and from down the hall he began to finish the duet I was singing. We laughed so hard and from that moment became good friends.
Bradford walked up to me. He had seen me quietly in the background I activities, classes, life.

"Are you a theatre major?" He asked.

"Yes."

"So you gonna do it or not?"

".... Yes!"

That question changed college.

From that moment I "did it." Instead of worrying about the details and the future, I "did it." Whenever I felt scared I just "did it." I got involved. I spoke up. I auditioned. I went places. I met people. I loved. I tried it. I became me. I "did it."

It changed my life.

I was afraid if my first huge professional design job. Bradford's voice "are you gonna do it or what?" So I did. Cause I wanted it.

He's been gone a year today and over 12 years that this has been a mantra of mine.

Hell, this morning I didn't want to go to the gym. I was feeling frail and emotional and I heard Bradford saying "you've got great boobs (I would edit that... But it wouldn't be fair to Bradford... Plus he's get a kick out of it!!) but you've really got to trim the rest of that down! You want to. I know it. So ARE YOU GONNA DO IT OR NOT?!!"

I laughed and trashed myself at the gym. Then spent hours chasing his kids around a bounce house. I was talking to his oldest, Talitha. I said "you know... you can do anything!" She said "I know, you can too!"

You all can.
So the question is.
Are you gonna do it, or not?