Mijanou ter Braak

When you are a baby, and you say mamma the first time, you get applause. You are....succesfull. When you can walk, you are again, succesfulll....You go to school and learn to read and write and there again, you are succesfull. Your get applause when you manage to learn and control something new. You get more applause with it if you get verry good with it. The system we are raised in, deals with us like that untill....Untill money gets involved. When you are a child and you make a drawing people applause when it is good. When you are an adult people applause when you sell.

All at once a succesfull artist is one that sells, no longer one that is good. You don't have to be good to sell, you just need the right connections and money. You don't sell because you're good.

The same goes for all other professions to. We all know that guy or woman who is no good at all but did get that great job just because of ????? And while that uncapable person is doing that job you just know there are many people that would do a great job if they had that possition but who will never get it....

It just doesn't make sence, but then again corruption never makes sence. It's all based on making money and controling people.

If you're a child your achievements makes succes, if your an adult money makes succes. If this child thing would carry on into adulthood it would mean an artist is succesful when he achieves great knowledge and skills.He is succesfull just because he can draw a portrait, not just because he can or can not sell it. I still believe in that, because that is what drives me.

I believe people who believe in money are destructive, because they loose an eye for the child in them, and teach their children to destroy the child inside of them.. They feel you don't need that child because it doesn't make you any money. But isn't it that child inside of you that brings great joy and happyness? Isn't it our natural instinct to be curious and creative, and isn't it this pure feeling that makes a person happy.

Isn't it a shame to destroy the child that could appreciate others and that was learning from everything and everyone around them. Isn't it time people wake up and see succes isn't about money, but about who we are and what we learn.

In that way everyone can be succesfull and happy, why not, we only live once