Tonight I was out working on the Blue Horizon Street Outreach Bus. On the upper deck we often have singstar in the PS2 – which the girls usually love using, tonight however, we didn’t have any girls, just boys for the whole night. Most of the guys had no interest in singing – at least, the ‘leader’ didn’t and so the rest didn’t. That didn’t perturb one young lad. He’s the kind of lad who doesn’t necesarily go along with the crowd, doesn’t really have any interest in doing something he’s not interested in or not doing something he is interested in. So this lad started singing, much to the amusement of the other guys on the bus. The first song he sang he took a lot of stick for, but it didn’t seem to affect him. So he started a second song, no-one joined him, but no-once heckled him. They all seemed to reach the realisation at around the same time that this lad was good. There were remarks that his voice sounded like a girls, and sure, his voice doesn’t match James Earl – Jones, but he quite happily sang on. He didn’t get embarrassed, scared, self-conscious or anything like that, he just kept singing.
I think it took a lot of bravery on his part to do that. I don’t think I could have at his age. To be 12, surrounded by your peers, and continue to do something they are all making fun of takes a lot of cohones. All power to him I say!
Just a wee story that I saw act out tonight that I wanted to share.
Peace Out
