Have You Got Talent?

This is a question that I do not know how to answer but implore you all to spend some time considering. I recently watched an excerpt of Britain's popular prime-time TV Show called 'Britain's Got Talent' featuring contestant Susan Boyle on YouTube.

Susan Boyle, aged "nearly 48" years old hails from a small Scottish village near Lothian and says she has been singing since the age of 12 and for her entry she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables. Susan entered herself into the Glasgow section of the show. She says she has never been married, is currently unemployed and looking for work and lives with her cat Pebbles.

The audience and the judges seemed bemused by her preamble as Susan told them and the audience that, "she always dreamed of singing before a large audience and wanted to be a professional singer as popular as Elaine Page and that she had thus far in her life never yet been given a chance to display her talent". She confidently said,"I'm gonna knock you audience out".

Eyes in the audience rolled and judges looks bemused and condescending.

She bowled them all over and I don't think anyone will contest her awesome talent. Her Facebook Page already has nearly half a million fans. Susan certainly didn't look like she was 'the part'.

That she has come this far in her life without 'being discovered' may seem incredible. And I ask you to consider why this can be so. Becoming famous has little to do with talent and much, much more to do with 'being in the right place at the right time' as well as having personal drive and ambition that is very closely aligned with those powers that 'oil' the media.

I seriously hope that Susan doesn't get 'spoiled' by the media machine who may 'advise' her to lose weight, get a different hairdo, 'do her up', etc etc. It would be great to think that the world would accept and appreciate Susan's beauty and purity of spirit without having to defileor misshape it.

Susan knew she was very talented and somehow managed to believe in herself during all those non-famous years. She knew she was at least as good as the singer to whom she aspires. She unashamedly knew she was "gonna knock the audience out".

Susan's plight so reminds me of the 'hundreds' of amazingly talented people I have met during my lifetime. People who are at least as talented at what they are good at as the icons who have claimed the top spots and spotlight along with ancillary fame and riches in their particular fields. These are the people who don't 'make it' because of many factors at play within our society. I'm sure just about all of you can think of people who fit this bill.

It is somehow a sad indictment of the status quo of our society that so much talent goes untapped. Being noticed and appreciated seems to have little to do with actual talent.

How can this be changed? I'll be back onto this topic. Keep posted.

And all the best to you Susan; I think your unemployed status might be about to change. And don't let the buggers spoil you.