BLESSED

You should be blessed and accepting
At lease feel blessed
and
accept the fact that you are blessed.

AFRAID

Afraid to go to sleep and afraid to get up...
What can that be?

Keepers of notebooks are different breed altogether.
                                                                 Didion

COMPLEMENT

Its not such a compliment
The feeling of being hurt always by others.
It reveals vulnerability in a negative way, the way of being
ignorant.
Cut it out.
Do it your way,
The hurt I mean...
Be strong, determined, decisive.

THE GIFTS

The gifts wasted through meaningless carelessness
and meaningless idiotic people.

ACTORS

All other actors sing this line

"Where am I going?"
And
"Why am I taking this malady with me?"

All actors say it
All actors sing it
All actors dance it

After the dance
all actors fight.

MALADY

Imagine what would you be without your malady?

A normal person

I don't want to be a normal person.

SELF RESPECT

People who have self respect stay out of trouble.

"Self respect is a private reconciliation."  ?

'People with self respect exhibit a certain toughness."  ?
They display moral nerve and character."?

CHARACTER

"The willingness to take responsibility for one's own life is the source
from which self respect springs."  ?

"One lives by doing things one doesn't particularly
want to do." ?

'By putting fears and doubts on one side." ?

REMEMBER

"Remember who and what you are."  ?

"Intrinsic worth which constitute self respect."

SELF RESPECT

"The ability to discriminate

The ability to love

The ability to remain indifferent. ?

CONTEMPT

"At the mercy of those we hold in contempt,
we play roles doomed to failure before they begun...
each defeat generating fresh despair."   Didion

'To free us from the expectation of others
to give us back to ourselves...
there lies the great, the singular power of self respect."  Didion

TWO WEEKS OF JUNE
A
NEW PLAY
BY
BINA SHARIF