The underdog in me

I finally can put my finger on it, why I am rooting for Susan Boyle.

I am not one much to follow internet fodder, but this story is one of true amazement. Personally I study "high achievers" and how they got to where they are and the mindset they possess...don't we all want to know their secret?

But Miss Susan Boyle has something I can relate to, an underdog story.
A girl, then turned into woman in her late 40's still with her dream of singing in front of a large audience, lives her dream and then she captures the world with her voice, ever surpassing her dream.

She is an underdog because she comes from humble beginnings.
She sheds light on dreams that people have given up on.
She sheds light into an industry loaded with "skinny mini teenie's" focused on exterior beauty.
She unknowingly has brought grace to the stage and to the forefront of the world.
She is sprite with character.
She is living her dream no matter what, and her age obviously did not kill her dream either!

It would seem hopeless, how would she get to live her dream? From her little village in Scotland, no major music industry connections...how? just how?

Somehow she kept her dream alive, and is now living it. That is the essence of life, the journey and the hope she brings.

If you take a moment and watch the clip of her walking off the stage after her very first time singing for the judges, she waved at the crowd with a smile and elegance that genuinely reflect that she was fulfilled and living her dream with a standing ovation!
That kind of moment is something we all have hidden in our hearts, and there she was living it.

At this moment I love the internet and that it has "shrunk" our world enough so that I can view this priceless gift of watching someone else across the globe have and then view enough guts to have a dream, and then view her living it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnmbJzH93NU&feature=related

Go Susan Boyle, Go!