I am so excited, My best friend Tiffany is trying out for American Idol! This is something she has been wanting to do for a long time and finnaly found the courage to do it.It’s funny that it was’t that long ago she was affraid to get up in front of people and sing. She was like many of us and was affraid, affraid not just to be up in front of people, but affraid that they wouldn’t like her singing. She didn’t want to be ridiculed. That’s funny because she knew she was good so why would she doubt that others wouldn’t feel the same? She had no problem singing for her family of just singing to the radio but she could just never get herself to sing in front of other people.One night I went out with her and we went to a small bar where the were having karaoke. We went with the intentions that she was going to sing. You could see that she wanted to really badly but she just couldn’t get herself to get up there and do it and tried to get me to go up there and sing with her, I assured her that no one wanted to hear me sing….ever… lol. She looked at the song list over and over but just kept stalling, she looked so long that a couple guys walked by and asked her if she just came to read or if she was going to sing some time that night. lol Right after that she wanted to go get a drink and asked me if I wanted to go with her, I told her to go ahead and that I would just stay at the table and listen to them sing, and some of them were really bad but you had to give them credit for having the courage to get up there and do what they enjoyed doing whether they were good or not.Well while she was in the other room I went up to the people running the music and told them that they really needed to get Tiffany up there to sing, I thought that maybe if they told her she was next she would do it, they said ok and asked what song they should have her sing so I picked her favorite song for them to play.
When she came back in the room the girl running things walked up to Tiffany and said “hey you are next” Tiffany was so surprise and she just said ”ok…. but what will I sing?” they assured her that they had something picked out for her. You should have seen the look on her face when they told her the name of the song, she was grinning from ear to ear, she looked at me and said “how did they know I loved this song?”
She was so nervous but she went up there and sang like she belonged there on that stage. The people were so impressed that they had her sing song after song and people stopped playing pool in the other room and came in to watch and listen to her sing. She was in heaven, doing what she loved to do.
Isn’t it funny how some of us have to be coaxed or pushed into finding our greatness? we are were not all fortunate enough to be born with the courage and self esteem needed to get us through all the trials we face each day. Another milestone that I didn’t mention was one of my own, it was very much out of character for me to go up there and ask those people to make her sing, but I knew I had to put my fear aside and step out of my comfort zone so I could help my friend step out of hers.
We all need a little help sometimes, maybe even a little push, to step out of our comfort zone and become what were created to for….Greatness! We all need the chance to go for our dreams!
I am glad I was there for Tiffany and helped her to take one of her first steps to uncovering her greatness and I would also like to help you in any way I can. I hope that by me sharing with you my thoughts and experiences that it will somehow help encourage you to seek and find all that you are looking for.
Be the best that you can be! Good Luck Tiffany!!!
You are Awesome!
Live, Laugh, Love,
Kathy
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