Becoming Real

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Ghazale Ghazanfari

“Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.
"It's a thing that happens to you.
When a child loves you for a long, long time,
not just to play with, but really loves you,
then you become real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.
"When you are real you don't mind being hurt.”

Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015

Vanity

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amir bajrich

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, and competition
-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us.
Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others,
and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people
who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity
and see each other's naked hearts.”

― Tennessee Williams

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015