A list of Hannah’s characteristics (The Human Oxymoron)
Short tempered
Can get emotional easily
Independent
Goofy
Outgoing
Passionate
Hard to open up
Quite
Loud
Hard working
Afficationate
Easy going
Creative
Strange
Imaginative
Critical thinking
Confident
Problem Solver
20 years ago a second baby girl was born to the Lelie family who lived in a small town right on the Delaware River that separated Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They named the baby girl Hannah after a great great someone in the Lelie family.
Family is important to the Lelies, so their were and still remains close to their relatives across the river in New Jersey. Hannah and her elder sister Kaelyn by two years grew up with their cousins. Before the girls were in school they went to there aunt’s house during the day to play with their cousins. And on the weekends enjoyed dinners at their Grammy and Pop-Pop's house. And during the summer spend weekends at the shore with her Oma and Opa.
When school started it was clear something was wrong. Hannah struggled with reading and writing, and was diagnosed with Dyslexia. She endured and pushed through the tears and frustrations, and worked twice as hard to prove to herself and everyone else she wasn’t stupid.
As the two girls grew-up their family went through both tough financial and emotional stress, that nearly tore the family apart. But the storm claimed and love showed through the darkness. But that darkness left scars on both daughters, a bitterness for people and a want for love but also a distrust in the idea of happiness. That did not deter her to search for love lead to heartache. It made her harden her heart a little bit more, but she secretly still had hope for happiness.
So she found peace in her independents, and watched movies and television and listened to music so she could control a part of her world. All she had to do was turn it off and on when everything else became too much. She had the outlet of dance to express herself but it also brought a discipline to her life. Which helped calm her mind.
Her upbrings and life experiences and learnings from different artistic medias shaped the woman she is today. But she still changes as new experiences and problems come into her life. New scars are made, and old ones mend.
My dear Hannah,
ReplyDeleteOh how I wish your heart never had to harden at such a young age. Although your outlet was dance, as was mine, PEOPLE also bring great happiness, more so then television. Sometimes the world is bitter and cold, when it rains it pours, but even when it rains sometimes a rainbow shows up right when you thought it couldn't get any worse. As you grow your perspectives will change, you will soon see the stress your parents went through financially as a child, as something you can actually relate to. Sometimes it's just a flip of perspective that can bring peace to your mind. Everything is a transition to your next transition. Embrace your unique abilities, talk to a stranger, take some risks you'd never imagine yourself taking, for the simple sake of being alive.
I find this extremely relatable and would read the book that follows! Has a nice feel and hopefully gives me the right idea of the type of person that you are.
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