What draws me to these shows? The judges? The chance for someone to win multi-million dollar contracts? The melt-downs, arguments and crazy drama?
Nope.
I love these shows because I connect with the contestants.
I feel their pain when the nerves close their throats.
I feel their joy when they sing better than they believed they could.
I love it when their hearts and emotions, raw and deep, float out with the notes through the camera all the way to the me sitting at home on the couch.
In a small way, I am them and they are me.
Authors, singers, performers are all artists struggling, growing, learning, improving our craft in the public eye. We stand on that stage before the world doing our very best to get people to love us. Oh, that sounds a little overly dramatic, but it's true isn't it?
It's all about giving love-- the desire to reach out and touch someone, anyone, with our gifts.
And receiving love--the viewer, or reader, experiencing the gifts in a way that touches their hearts.
Can't wait.
Kimberley Troutte
www.kimberleytroutte
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1 comment:
Characters are the key to everything. ;-)
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