Hidden Talents

I can't think of a better way to start off this blog aimed at menopausal women -- rather, "women in transition" -- than to share the video of Susan Boyle with you. You may have seen this already, as it has been around the world and back several times in the last week. But it's worth a second, third and fourth look, even.

Susan Boyle is a 47-year-old spinster from a small hamlet in Scotland. By her own admission, she never married, lives with cats and has never even been kissed. She has devoted most of her life to taking care of her infirmed mother. But Susan is a diamond in the rough. She has MAD singing talent!

She signed up for the hit show, "Britain's Got Talent," and when she clomped onto the stage in her clunky shoes and drab, beige dress with BLACK stockings (YIKES!), wiry, graying hair, peach-fuzzed face and Brezhnev-thick eyebrows, and told the panel of judges and audience of thousands that her dream was to be a singer, everyone just laughed at her -- especially the young girls, to whom the camera cut away several times. They rolled their eyes at her and you could just hear them thinking, "Oh, RIGHT, old woman! It's way too late for you. Give it up!"

Then she started singing, and the crowd was on its feet. See the miracle unfold for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY


You got goosebumps, didn't you? Susan Boyle, I LOVE you! You give hope to everyone who has ever had a dream, or who has given up on a dream because they thought their season in the sun had passed them by long ago. The message here is simplistic, but important nonetheless: Believe in yourself, always -- no matter what your age! -- even when others don't.

Makes me wonder . . . how many of us have hidden talents that we've been too afraid to show the world? Well?? What are you waiting for, an invitation from Simon Cowell?

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