Penelope Charalampous: "whoever says that the Greeks only have fun and spend money, I can show them thousands of my fellow citizens in cold homes and with empty refrigerators."
BPP: Identity: Who you are? And who you
really are?
Pinelopi Charalampous: I live in Athens, Greece.
I studied pedagogical and obstetrics, but currently i'm a dance
teacher ( arabic belly dance ).
BPP: If you could say something
important you've learned all these years of your life, to the other people and
they were able to listen to you, what would you like to tell them?
Penelope Charalampous:The only thing I am sure, is that everything is possible! I
would suggest to people to engage with the philosophy, to start from scratch
since the beginning. To read Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Decart, Spinoza, up to
modern philosophers. I guarantee them a unique journey; philosophy leads to
deification, to emotion and doubt... and when there is doubt there is thought,
and therefore extension. ''I think therefore I am'' the internal change will
bring the mutation and our world will become more beautiful. Some of us who
have young children are lucky because they live with small philosophers and
philosophy courses will become easier for those.
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BPP: What is your real dream, the one
that keeps you awake at nights and if one day it will come true, you will feel
your heart calm and peacefull?
Penelope Charalampous:My first dream is to see my daughter happy and mature
woman. That means to live and to follow the evolution and maturity of life.
In my young dream to be a chef in my own restaurant . I
close my eyes and I see myself between porcelain, floral curtains and white
daisies… full of smells and flavors, very calm and happy .
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BPP: How is life for the people in your country today?
What do you wish to happen to them and to the people of this planet at large?
Penelope Charalampous: Greece is living under the theory of old Scrooge,
justice exists only between equals…
My people are deceived, humiliated throughout this
scam erected by bankers, politicians and journalists. We Greeks are impulsive,
sensitive and conscientious All these make us gullible. The media trampled on
Greek people, deescalated and cheated them.
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Yesterday evening I was talking with a friend who
lives 500 kilometers away from my town, she was hungry and had no money to buy a
yogurt to eat ..of course I didn’t eat dinner that night from my guilt ... Alas
though accustomed to such images!
Do not be sad because capitalism made us abject, but be
angry and try to find out how to escape from this absurd status; every absurd thing
ends badly and we are already at the beginning of the end ...
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BPP: If you had the chance to be a child again, will you choose to do the same life you do?
Penelope Charalampous:No! I spent very annoying childhood. When I came adult I found an obscure mountain in front of me. Until
I climb
on
top and
get self knowledge, I spent a lot on this, So
I chose all the rest to be easy. But
again
I would choose
my partner,
my daughter
and
I love
them
very much. Of
course if
I had another
life and
other experiences
then I wouldn’t know all
these people and
I would not miss
them, as well I don’t miss those people I’ve never known but I could be madly in
love with them (laughs)
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BPP: Which exactly was the moment you understood what you want to do in your life? How did you feel at this very moment?
Penelope Charalampous:What I wanted
changed according to each period of my life . For example when I finished my studies
and I started
working I
think this is just
to preserve; for
me the important was to travel, to learn
other countries,
world
cultures, tastes, and I did it. For 5 years I’ve been working,
getting money
and traveling.
I’ve been to every country I wanted, I felt uniquely, I got full of it!
Then I thought that what I want
to do
in my life is
a child . I did it, but motherhood is
something that
never
get enough . Now with
the crisis and
high
unemployment I make
my hobby
my
profession. Teaching Arabic Oriental (belly dance) is
something that gives
me joy,
positive energy
and some money, but I know
that this is
a break before I finish
my dream... maybe when I fulfill it then I will dream
something else; it's nice to dream even if it never happens,
it gives you a reason to exist, and keeps you young for ever.
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BPP: Something yours: Do you want to tell
us something we didn't ask you until now?
Penelope Charalampous I would like to be asked: "what do you particularily like from the short trip on
earth ?" And i would give this answer: " the sea, the rainbow, wind, fog,the trampoline, chocolate
ice cream, the smell of burning wood, the rain, the gardenias, the siesta in a
hammock, dance, the sound of the violin, the smell of my baby, the cinema, the
sticks, the sound of Dreamcatcher..
Penelope Charalampous' Drawing for Beautiful People Project
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