Al altijd was ik fan van Meryl Streep, maar ontroerd was ik toen ik haar Julia zag vertolken in de film 'Julie and Julia'. Ontroerd en geraakt door het neerzetten van een passie die aanvoelde als de mijne.
Dit las ik vandaag en vatte samen wat ik de laatste jaren voelde. Life begins at fifty en het wordt steeds mooier en mooier en gemakkelijker.
'I no longer have patience for certain things,
not because Ive 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 thats 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
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