I’m Queen, She’s Prisoner
What we do not know, do not see are the huge sacrifices behind a star’s success.
I imagine Joan Collins, a beauty, willingly disciplined herself to swimming for at least one hour every day, besides her morning exercizes, a tight diet to keep fit, healthy and her line, studied carefully her coiffure, her make up, her dress, her shoes and regularly goes to the boutique, fashion salon. She had to study, exercize acting, her film scripts, keep her many appointments, … I don’t think she had a lot of leisure time for herself.
Rubinstein perhaps started playing piano when he was a child. For years he exercized, studied hard and even when he was a star he said that he still had to exercize for hours – not just one or two hours - every day to maintain a good performance. When he didn’t exercize just one day, he himself would notice the difference, when he didn’t excercize for a week, his close friends would notice this.
Think of Rudy Hartono, the badminton champion, Federer the tennis champion, Tiger Woods, the champion golfer, Lance Armstrong champion of Tour de France, … what did they not sacrifice?
“Would you like to be queen Elisabeth who is still healthy and graceful? She’s over 80 by now.” So asked Opa Johan his wife.
“Certainly not, as I think how ‘imprisoned’ I would be by the rules, good manners, a very tight time- schedule in a palace. I never can laugh openly, roar with laughter, I should always suppress it for decorum’s sake. Now can I eat what I like, how to sit, to stand, when to sleep, to work, to exercize, … as I choose, decide, have fun and a lot of leisure time without anyone watching me. I’m queen, she’s ‘prisoner’. Ha, ha.”
November 2010
What we do not know, do not see are the huge sacrifices behind a star’s success.
I imagine Joan Collins, a beauty, willingly disciplined herself to swimming for at least one hour every day, besides her morning exercizes, a tight diet to keep fit, healthy and her line, studied carefully her coiffure, her make up, her dress, her shoes and regularly goes to the boutique, fashion salon. She had to study, exercize acting, her film scripts, keep her many appointments, … I don’t think she had a lot of leisure time for herself.
Rubinstein perhaps started playing piano when he was a child. For years he exercized, studied hard and even when he was a star he said that he still had to exercize for hours – not just one or two hours - every day to maintain a good performance. When he didn’t exercize just one day, he himself would notice the difference, when he didn’t excercize for a week, his close friends would notice this.
Think of Rudy Hartono, the badminton champion, Federer the tennis champion, Tiger Woods, the champion golfer, Lance Armstrong champion of Tour de France, … what did they not sacrifice?
“Would you like to be queen Elisabeth who is still healthy and graceful? She’s over 80 by now.” So asked Opa Johan his wife.
“Certainly not, as I think how ‘imprisoned’ I would be by the rules, good manners, a very tight time- schedule in a palace. I never can laugh openly, roar with laughter, I should always suppress it for decorum’s sake. Now can I eat what I like, how to sit, to stand, when to sleep, to work, to exercize, … as I choose, decide, have fun and a lot of leisure time without anyone watching me. I’m queen, she’s ‘prisoner’. Ha, ha.”
November 2010
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