漂在海外
总想拥有自己的天空，却无奈流失太多的青春
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好久没有上来经营我的博客了，忙吗？也许吧。今天创建一个新的分类：心灵鸡汤，严格的讲应该是女人心灵鸡汤。应该是大部分的文章都摘自“Chicken Soup for he Woman's Soul”，说不定也会有其他出处或自己创作也未必。今天的摘自女人心灵鸡汤：
Just the Way You Are
My friend Mark Tucker produces and delivers multimedia slide presentations to audiences across the country.
One night, following one of his shows on the East Coast, a woman came up to him and said, "You know, you really should be using my son's music in your show."
So Mark started to give her the usual rap. First, her son should make a demo tape. It didn't have to be professional, he explained. In fact, her son could just go into his bedroom and play some simple chords on his guitar-just enough to gave Mark an idea of the type of he played.
After he had explained the whole process, the woman gave him a funny look and said, "Well, my son is Billy Joel."
As soon as he had recovered from the shock, Mark quickly assured her that her son would not need to send a demo tape! He then listened as this woman utged him to consider using one particular song her son had written. She felt it contained a postive message about self-worth that would fit Mark's work beautifully. And she went on to describe how the seeds of that sone had been planted in early childhood.
As a yong boy, she explained, Billy Joel often wanted to be someone else, someone different from who he was. It seems he was teased a lot becaused he was shorter than the rest of the kids. It was common for him to come home from school or play and complain that he wasn't good enough. And he truly believed that if he chould be just a little taller, then he'd be okay.
His monther, of course, never believed for a minute that her son was anything less than perfect. So everytime he expressed somthing negative about himself, she said to him, "Don't worry--it doesn't matter. You don't have to be like anyone else because you're already perfect. We're all unique, we're all different. And you, too, have something wonderful to share with the world. I love you just the way you are."
Remember that old expression about words coming back to haunt you? In this case, the words of a mother who unconditionally loved her son came back many years later in the form of a song. You see, as Billy Joel grew up, he learned who he was and he found his dream of creating music for the world. And millions of people got to hear with their herats, as his mother did, the words of his Grammy Award-winning song:
Don't go changin'
to try and please me...
I love you just the way you are.
Jennifer Read Hawthorne
Just the Way You Are
My friend Mark Tucker produces and delivers multimedia slide presentations to audiences across the country.
One night, following one of his shows on the East Coast, a woman came up to him and said, "You know, you really should be using my son's music in your show."
So Mark started to give her the usual rap. First, her son should make a demo tape. It didn't have to be professional, he explained. In fact, her son could just go into his bedroom and play some simple chords on his guitar-just enough to gave Mark an idea of the type of he played.
After he had explained the whole process, the woman gave him a funny look and said, "Well, my son is Billy Joel."
As soon as he had recovered from the shock, Mark quickly assured her that her son would not need to send a demo tape! He then listened as this woman utged him to consider using one particular song her son had written. She felt it contained a postive message about self-worth that would fit Mark's work beautifully. And she went on to describe how the seeds of that sone had been planted in early childhood.
As a yong boy, she explained, Billy Joel often wanted to be someone else, someone different from who he was. It seems he was teased a lot becaused he was shorter than the rest of the kids. It was common for him to come home from school or play and complain that he wasn't good enough. And he truly believed that if he chould be just a little taller, then he'd be okay.
His monther, of course, never believed for a minute that her son was anything less than perfect. So everytime he expressed somthing negative about himself, she said to him, "Don't worry--it doesn't matter. You don't have to be like anyone else because you're already perfect. We're all unique, we're all different. And you, too, have something wonderful to share with the world. I love you just the way you are."
Remember that old expression about words coming back to haunt you? In this case, the words of a mother who unconditionally loved her son came back many years later in the form of a song. You see, as Billy Joel grew up, he learned who he was and he found his dream of creating music for the world. And millions of people got to hear with their herats, as his mother did, the words of his Grammy Award-winning song:
Don't go changin'
to try and please me...
I love you just the way you are.
Jennifer Read Hawthorne
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