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Always be Yourself

Last night I went to see Billy Elliot the Musical. It was great.

The movie was one of the greatest I have seen. Set in Britain in the 1980s in the coal mining country besieged by strike and hardship, it is about a boy who wants be a ballet dancer, struggling for freedom and acceptance, being different from what was expected of him from the society.

The show story says,

If Billy Elliot is about one thing it is that we are all capable of making lives for ourselves which are full of joy and self-expression, whilst we might not all become ballet dancers we are capable of finding moments of real profundity and creativity whatever our circumstances. But more than that we have a duty to ourselves and each other to create a society where this possibility in all of us is nurtured and can flourish. We owe it to the next generation to create a world where it is possible for the Billy Elliots as yet unborn to have a chance to succeed and flourish rather than be fed to the machine which grinds us into identical pieces only fit for consumption. If Billy Elliot conveys any message at all I hope it is that it is possible to fight back and resist and it is possible to move on without forgetting where you come from.

In everything you do
Always be yourself,
And you always will be true