Dreams Do Come True

Dreams Do Come True

Have you heard of Susan Boyle? Forty-seven year old, plump, heavy eye-browed Susan Boyle? If you haven’t, you need to.  You need to hear her sing. She is the woman who has managed to blow away Simon Cowell and just about every contestant on American Idol with her performance of “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables on the British talent show, Britain’s Got Talent (American Idol’s parent).

And she’s never been married or kissed and lives with her cat. She has been singing in her church choir, however, since she was 12 years old. And this dear, sweet sister had a dream. She wanted to be a famous singer, like Elaine Page, she said.  Page is best known for her performance in the theater musical Cats as the outcast, Grizabella, who sang the very famous song, “Memory.”

When Susan walked out on the stage, she seemed real enough, perhaps too real for Simon and the other two judges and the entire audience. They were against her. They had a very powerful wake-up call. This woman blew everyone away with her voice and her talent and her completely surprising emotion. She nailed it!

And now, she has a chance to realize her dream; though her first dream was to sing in front of a very large audience. She’s well on her way, and it made me feel so happy, so completely full of joy and goodness and all that is light and positive and beautiful about life.

We stop too soon in our lives. When I was in my late twenties I had a term for people who had stopped living but were continuing to walk and talk and work and breathe – I called them the Walking Dead. And in my thirties I nearly joined their ranks. But, through what I believe to be a miracle, I was saved. And it was a long road back to the land of the living, but I made it.

Even after all the pain in my marriage, which came even later, I still managed to come through it all with a smile and, more importantly, a dream. Don’t give up on your dreams. They are more real than so many of the people walking this earth. 

Watch this woman who is living her dream.

And don’t forget your own.

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