life!

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!!!

I live in a society that does not appreciate the hard work or determination of the people who have put in a 100% to allow our eyes behold beauty, our ears enjoy sound, our minds appreciate brilliance or our hearts endure sorrow. This amongst a lot of other deprecating gestures KILL me, you wonder why ours is a country where dreams come to die!!?!

Until recently, the lighter, more popular arts like music, dance, spoken word were laughable.. majority still don't get it. Snide remarks like "that's not a real job" are written in the wind, are whispers in the sand, spoken by their eyes. It's a conceited people that think their skill is above another... besides if it isn't worth mentioning why is it ALL you can talk about?

People laughed at Michaelangelo and the Sistine chapel, at Noah and the Ark, at Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity. A king is never appreciated in his Kingdom. So....
Write if you want to write.
Sing till you hit the right note.
Talk to yourself in the mirror:if you can motivate one, your work is done.
Dance to the music you hear(so what if your ears hear hip hop and your body hears garage?).

It's their loss if they want to be jaded...

I get smiles and many positive nods in what I think is approval of my academic profession, which is okay, and just that OKAY,nothing more. If asked to choose approval or over self-respect, self respect would be the victor always. My brain is in good working order, my self esteem makes me feel I can climb Everest, I may not be where I want to be, but the journey there is worth every cheer and tear. Who died and made anyone the BOSS of me?!

My boyfriend who is a self- proclaimed mountain of wisdom told me once that knowledge in any form shape or manner is its own reward... truer words have never been spoken.