Susan Boyle - What can we learn?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by ChTatum

Just tried to watch it, but got a message that the video had been removed by request.

I don't think I have ever watched American Idol, but have seen a few clips. Doesn't interest me.

It's all over the web today - - it's well worth the watch.

See if you can just search Susan Boyle and watch it.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

I think that is the point of this thread.

She's alright... just as she is.

Sorry, I didn't mean any offense by this statement.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Sorry, I didn't mean any offense by this statement.

No offense...

It just seemed to state a very similar thought to what the thread is stating.

We feel such a need that people "look like us" to be accepted and appreciated.

When she walked up she didn't "look like" someone who could sing so beautifully and the judgments were made.

As I said... no offense in the least. I just found it ironic to see that thought in this thread.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

No offense...

It just seemed to state a very similar thought to what the thread is stating.

We feel such a need that people "look like us" to be accepted and appreciated.

When she walked up she didn't "look like" someone who could sing so beautifully and the judgments were made.

As I said... no offense in the least. I just found it ironic to see that thought in this thread.

I guess that just hit me, because when I first saw her on the news clip, I honestly thought she was a man. Only when I saw the dress did I realize it was a woman.

[Esther]

What a voice!

[Pressing-On]

I've been listening to this for a couple of days - incredible. I cried my eyes out.

I'm posting the lyrics because my husband said he could not understand one word she was saying. LOL! Not the complete song, but this is the portion she sang.


I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

[rgcraig]

I know - I keep listening to it too!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I know - I keep listening to it too!

I'm listening to it right now. LOL! She's so special!!! I saw a clip of her on some news show. I hope they leave her just the way she is, although if she wants to change after getting out of being holed up with her cat, then I'm okay with that also.

I loved when the girl judge said, "It was a privilege to listen to that."

[Sister Alvear]

I cried...such talent...

[TheRationalist]

The lesson is:

We shall never know how many magnificent songs unsung, masterpiece books not written, and other treasures forever unknown because they were buried within those deemed incapable, unworthy, or too ordinary to be given a chance.