Most likely you have heard of Susan Boyle. Today she is a world celebrity after presenting herself in a music reality show in England. Her physical appearance, somehow sloppy, caused a certain underestimation by the jury and audience up until she sung admirably for few minutes. Her presentation caused surprise, tears, laughs, and ultimately claps. It was the birth of a star in the music world.
Maybe, she had to wait the information era, as we live today, full of technologies to see the explosion that her voice became through the internet. In only 2 weeks her videos had been seen for more than 100 million times. She got her own page on Wikipedia; she was invited for many talk shows throughout the world, and she was offered a CD contract.
The lesson learned in this episode is directly related to our capacity to judge other people, businesses, or any instance without knowing the inside of that same instance. It only takes a bad report from someone else, a bad visual impression, and sometimes a possible negative thought for this negative chain of reaction to start. We, humans, have the tendency to be optimistic if we hear one hundred positive comments, but the time we hear only one negative comment, besides the fact of already having one hundred positive comments, we withdraw from that particular instance and sometimes even give up of our dreams.
The society has made us this way. Our families make us be this way, sometimes unconsciously. Going back to Susan Boyle we could notice how transformed was her style few days after her presentation. She cut her hair; she changed her clothes, she was a new woman and much more attractive. Why did that happen? It happened because we live in a world where our external appearance matters. This is no exception, unfortunately.
This pressure that comes from the outside most of time pushes our talents and gifts to a place where we can never reach unless we decide to overcome the world and start to shy. This is a tough task for the timid, fearful, pessimistic, and anybody who do not believe that dreams can be achieved.
The truth is that anything can be achieved if we change our attitude and go for it. I can imagine how hard it was for Susan to be there at first in front of the world and sing, knowing that she was being overlooked by everybody due to her appearance. She still went up there and showed who she really was and her life changed forever.
My advice for all of us is to go ahead and dream. However, do not dream only, but seek to make that come to pass. If you want to lose weight, do something. If you want to buy a house, do something. If you want to be happy, do something. Eliminate your fears and disregard the pressure of the world.
Remember the Susan Boyle example!
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