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A brilliant little paragraph

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I have always liked Meryl Streep as an actress, my mother says she is the pinnacle of the art of acting.

After recently reading some of her thoughts on life, I have come to appreciate her as a fellow human, as well…as I felt goosebumps while reading, as every sentence felt like it was written by someone to actually express how I feel inside but cannot tell. 

Here is what she wrote:

“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.” _ Meryl Streep

 

So eloquently expressed, so true for me, too. It gave me hope that good, strong characters persist, in spite of the degenerate culture of our days, which encourages smooth operators, two-faced pushers and bootlickers.

Gül 

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