Maybe Everything's Right with the World

26 September 2009

Don Lorenzo's Struggle

angie005, MPep


Elisabeth Kubler-Ross defined The 5 Stages of Grief aka The Kubler-Ross Model in her book titled “On Death and Dying”.

Stages:

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

The model was first applied to human illness suffering but future development found these stages can be applied to any catastrophic personal loss.

Kubler-Ross noted that the stages do not necessarily come in order, nor will humans go through all said stages.

Don Lorenzo discovering the world he once knew was changing is no exception to the Kubler-Ross Model.




Pepa and Silvia’s First (Second) Kiss also known as the infamous Bathroom Scene was the “wake-up” call to disrupt Don Lorenzo's content life.

“When you get to a certain age, it becomes increasingly difficult to accept when you're wrong, and much more difficult to change your values.”

After witnessing that his adult daughter Silvia was intimate with a woman, Pepa Miranda, he experienced his stages:

Anger - After Don Lorenzo processed what he had seen between Silvia and Pepa, and after the initial shock was dealt with, he turned to the emotions he was most comfortable with: anger. Except his anger was dealt within himself, instead of verbally expressed as per his norm.

“The juice? The juice that I’m going to squeeze from your BRAIN. You...bitch. (Despotenciada)”

Denial - When Paco approaches DL on the subject of Pepa and Silvia, DL was quick to dismiss the event ever happened.

Bargaining - As comical as this scene was, it showed that was DL was willing to do anything to make his daughter change her feelings for Pepa.

What father would set up a surveillance, wasting thousands of dollars of police equipment and demanding an employee to do his dirty work? Only on Los Hombres de Paco.

DL was hoping he could change Silvia's feelings for Pepa in exchange for his self worth. He needed to know his values were still the same and that he was still right.

Depression - Depression and Acceptance came quickly for DL. First, he had realized that he had lost this battle; his daughter was truly happy to be with a woman and he couldn’t change that. His values, morals and ethics and everything he believed were diminished.

Acceptance - Even though DL's timing was horribly off, it was also most memorable. He begins to tell a story about Silvia’s mother - manuals and the important things in life. He had come to terms that happiness comes within the person and basically gave his blessing to Pepa and Silvia.

Don Lorenzo’s acceptance was handled in such as positive outlook that it should be a reference to all parents and people in general that who other people love should not matter. Values and morals should not play a factor on how to judge others.

With a pivotal moment as Don Lorenzo’s acceptance, it is a stepping stone further to educate the world to do the same.

“But even if you think you know how things should be, the reality is that things are simply how they are. Life isn't like a tractor that sows virtue wherever it goes, and in that you find happiness...”

angie005 MPep Commentary

Now that I have your attention, I’m pleased to announced that PepSi University has a PepSi Student Council.

Our first order of business is the new PepSi University Student Cards!

All PepSi Students are encouraged to apply for their Free PepSi Student Cards!

The Student Cards will allow access in and around the PepSi University, including the Frisking Parking Garage. It also has a 10% discount at the 24/7 Bar and University Bookstore. Other promotions and deals will be added all year round.

Piper's Note:

Angie005, MPep's lecture title came from a song by Barrie Gledden called "Planet Earth". Please download and listen to it and realize how poignant that whole song is.