People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved, and people are being used~~~Stephie Pahlavi Zan
You can not expect to evolve as a well rounded individual if you are afraid to get dirty.
I am never regretful of having tragedy and loss any longer...for I see how strong these horrendous experiences have caused me to become a pillar of strength amongst others.
From every negative circumstance any of us experience...there is another part of us that becomes engorged with strength
which not only allows us to get through that terrible circumstance, but maintain ourselves once the trauma has diminished enough for us to see things more clearly in retrospect...and experience this wonderful inner strength.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can't do this' to 'I MUST do this!' Also, The struggles in your life creates empathy. One can relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love you nor care that they are intentionally trying to decimate you. It is when you are faced with pure evil...when the people who were your life change and turn on you...enjoying to make you suffer. They know what they are doing. They are responsible for your pain. Don't give up. Look within.
Don't wear white.
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Stephie Pahlavi Zan
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I am writing to comment on slanderous references to me, communicated by individuals who do not know me. Since I live by Eleanor Roosevelt's assertion, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people," I will not honor ad hominem attacks with words in kind. I can only state that people who engage in defamation against someone with whom they are not acquainted (or, much less, apprehend the facts, which they do _not_ take time to verify) do nothing more than waste time and fill a pitiable void in their own lives. I wish them well, while categorically refuting their falsehoods.
I LOVE Natalie Dessay's performance! I see Diana Damrau may have
dominated the search results for "Queen of the Night" aria but Damrau is
missing something Dessay figured out. Damrau's version of the Queen was
always consistently menacing and in control. Dessay's version tried to
be more balanced by giving the Queen vulnerability. Dessay successfully
portrayed a woman whose ideas became so extreme she lost her sanity but
had enough restraint to stay in control, which is very difficult
to perform. When Damrau performed the "high notes" to indicate the
Queen was laughing she seemed more like she was berating and scolding.
Dessay genuinely appeared to be laughing during the high notes, which,
was Mozart's intent. The Queen was giving a maniacal laugh because she
was going insanely incensed from the personal anguish of being oppressed
as a woman. Dessay's performance had a lot more risk in that respect
but gave a more complex portrayal of the Queen.
I LOVE Natalie Dessay's performance! I see Diana Damrau may have
dominated the search results for "Queen of the Night" aria but Damrau is
missing something Dessay figured out. Damrau's version of the Queen was
always consistently menacing and in control. Dessay's version tried to
be more balanced by giving the Queen vulnerability. Dessay successfully
portrayed a woman whose ideas became so extreme she lost her sanity but
had enough restraint to stay in control, which is very difficult to
perform. When Damrau performed the "high notes" to indicate the Queen
was laughing she seemed more like she was berating and scolding. Dessay
genuinely appeared to be laughing during the high notes, which, was
Mozart's intent. The Queen was giving a maniacal laugh because she was
going insanely incensed from the personal anguish of being oppressed as a
woman. Dessay's performance had a lot more risk in that respect but
gave a more complex portrayal of the Queen.
The reason they find it so difficult to be happy is that they always view the past to be better than it was, the present dramatically worse than it is, and the future less resolute than it will be.
The idea of happiness is foreign to them.
Is this not something that is innate because babies are born with
"tabula rasa" which refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. However I don't disagree with the doctrine of Innatism which holds that the mind is born already in possession of certain knowledge.
A smile, for instance is natural and innate! So it is a combination of the two schools of thought.
It is unfortunate that the negativity experienced over rides the beautiful positives.