Okay, so I haven’t been blogging for a while but today I was browsing around on Facebook as you do. I happened to come across this video which was posted by one of my Facebook friends and at first it appeared rather amusing. Actually, I won’t tell a lie; I didn’t just find it amusing, I admit I damn nearly wet myself laughing when I saw it:
After having composed myself from laughing so hard, and the aching in my cheeks had subsided, I suddenly then started to see the video from a completely different angle.
Whether this little guy intended these videos to be amusing or not, and I suspect from having watched an interview with him on an American chat show that he did, he now has a product that people watch in their millions. Just go check the number of views on his YouTube videos.
What impressed me the most about this, was not the fact that he had created an amusing video channel like so many other YouTube celebrities, but he had done it in spite of what many might class as ‘challenges’.
In fact, I suspect that he doesn’t even realise the has any challenges; to watch him on the chat show, it was pretty obvious that he be oozed confidence and enthusiasm and was enjoying his time in the lime light. This in itself is refreshing to see in the midst of a culture and society whose focus is on the beautiful and the physically perfect.
However, all of this was not the most impressive part about the videos that he produces. What really struck me about the style of the videos was that he was doing something (miming songs in front of the camera) that many of us would feel too stupid to even contemplate doing. Dancing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush for a microphone, miming the words to a favourite song has been the source of ridicule and teasing for many who are discovered doing this by others. We’d do it as long as we’re not discovered, and certainly never on camera in front of millions.
This little guy really doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about him, and that’s the whole point. In being this way, he has the freedom of expression to do what he wants and in the process has created a video channel that by all accounts makes for compulsive viewing. Perhaps the lesson here is, that if there is something that we really want to do, we should get out of our own way, stop worrying about what other people think of us, and what they might say if we were to fail, and go do it anyway. If your goal is big enough, then nothing should get in your way, especially not what others think of you.
I’ll leave you to ponder that thought and put your comments below…
