Like Susan Boyle: Are you living your dream?
Unless you’ve been trapped under a Hobbit hut without a computer, you’re probably one of the 120 million worldwide viewers who’ve downloaded Susan Boyle on YouTube bringing the house down with “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables.” One of the great things about the 48-year-old unstyled, uncoached, rather frumpy-looking British spinster is that, when asked by Simon Cowell, “What’s the dream?” her response was “I’m trying to be a professional singer.”
Not, “I want to be famous” but “I want to make a living doing something I love.” Somehow, that touched me more than all the ambitious 20-somethings who want to rule the charts.
