In Shirley MacLaine's book "It's all in the Playing" she talks about -
Life is a stage and each of us are players upon it. We choose our parts, but how we play them is the real issue. Sometimes we complain about the parts we have written for ourselves; sometimes we wish we had someone else's part. More important than anything, we so harshly judge the manner in which we play ourselves, as well as how someone else is playing his or her part. We all know there is a need for protagonists and antagonists in a "play" in order to have colour and dramatic, or even comedic, tension. Without the polarity of tension and points of view in a play, there is no interest. So why is it that we are so unwilling to be tolerant of those very values that give us the colour and tension and differences in the grander play called life?
What part have you chosen for yourself? What one thing has provided a turning point in your life? Are you a protagonist (overcomer of obstacles) or an antagonist (creator of obstacles)? Was tolerance one of your virtues, or did you work hard to make it one of your virtues?
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