Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were recently called “grifters” by a Spotify executive, as you probably heard. If you pay attention to that sort of thing.
Whether that’s an accurate or fair descriptor for them is not a question I’m qualified to answer.
But Prince Harry brings up a valid point in his memoir, Spare.
“Sponge, the papers called me. But there’s a big difference between being a sponge and being prohibited from learning independence. After decades of being rigorously and systematically infantilized, I was now abruptly abandoned, and mocked for being immature? For not standing on my own two feet?”
There’s plenty of detail in Spare that shows that Prince Harry has been willing to work hard in his life. He admits that he was never one for book learning, but his physical feats are impressive. He has participated in treks to both the North and South Poles, he has labored in rough terrain in both Australia and Africa, and he was in the Army. He served as co-pilot and gunner in an Apache helicopter in Afghanistan.
It just goes to show that there are two sides to every story. Again, I can’t adjudicate every decision Harry and Meghan have ever made, and I wouldn’t want to. But surely there’s more to a human being than a tabloid headline. We would do well to remember that.
The overriding thought I had upon finishing Spare is that Harry’s personality doesn’t seem to fit well with the circumstances he was born into.
Have you ever felt like you weren’t born for your circumstances?
What finally freed Amadaus Motzart was his realization that he was being suppressed by his father and family. It was a painful and guilt ridden decision on his part but from that decision look what he offered the world.
I did not know that about Mozart. Interesting.
Yeah, he was basically supporting his entire family. Money driven, his father Leopold, also a composer used his daughter and son, Amadeus as a parlor act, paraded all around Salzburg and eventually entertained royalty, etc. because it was just for praise and money, the music played wasnāt unique but fit the current trends. But Wolfgang knew he was a composer and was drawn towards opera. But this traveling show was a sort of long apprenticeship for him and he got to travel and hear many different forms of music, which he benefited from. Finally, I think at age twenty he didnāt return home with his family when visiting Vienna, he refused to go home. Then he used all his pent up energy to create the famous compositions heās known.