Saturday, December 19, 2015

Cornering Capable Youth

I saw an ad on Facebook with a picture of a floutist.  It said for professors to recruit students.  That's like the professors are the ones begging for talent.

The 1st thing I liked as a kid was art.  I had a desire to be "good" at it, for the muse to come to my scribblings.  I remember it then.

When I showed an interest in playing piano by ear on a tiny keyboard I got when I was 2 years old, my parents got me in piano lessons and I quit art lessons I had just started when moving.  I played a little around relatives, and I was told I would grow up to be a pianist.  I kept saying, like, "Oh, I just wanna do it for fun."  It was insisted that must be my career.

I know that Bella Thorne was a very modest girl about getting attention in some ways at some points.  It seems people have pulled her out of her hole and she comes on as very competitive.  You know, a lotta people from places like the Northeast have this thing about being competitive for attention.

Why wake the sleeping dragon?  All I can say about what comes up is that you can't bring people in to take away attention someone earned with their hard work.  There's attention for all if you look or happiness in some way.

Today, people are just so rash and hasty.  They are worried about being Italian or what have you, ignored like the Chinese.  They step on those with mixed race problems or whatnot.  They get confused and it gets out of hand.  People like the Spanish can be very interested in the Chinese, but they can also be very racist to the Chinese, treating them like Hitler and the Nazis treated the Jews there.  It's not a secret and it's not a small thing.