I Just Want to Be Heard!

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We all want our 15 minutes of fame.
Some of you reading this might be thinking: “No, that’s not true, I hate the limelight.” I disagree. We ALL want to be on American Idol, maybe not to sing (although is there anyone out there who doesn’t think they can sing better than Sanjaya?) but you do want to be in the center of the stage… You want to be heard!

Case in point:
Several Weeks ago I was in a meeting room at the State House in Trenton. The room is set up in a horseshoe and each member of the committee that meets in that room has a microphone. I was in Trenton as part of a celebration of elementary school children whose art work was selected to be shown at an art exhibit at the state house. At this evening event there were over 120 people, many of them were children. The children were draw to the microphones like bees to honey. The mics weren’t on, but no matter: if a child went by the mike, they stopped and spoke (or sang) into it. I’m not kidding, not one of them could walk by without leaning over and saying something into the mike, even though it wasn’t on.

Okay, you’re thinking, they’re kids!

Not so fast.
Once the children left and the adults were left to clean up, I heard several of my colleagues voices over the speaker system. They not only couldn’t resist the temptation, they had found the sound controls and turned the microphones on.
They were singing (badly) telling jokes (poorly) and altogether being silly.
Yes, they were just goofing around, but I think that deep inside each of them was this tiny voice saying: “Listen to me! I’m better than William Hung! I’m better than Sanjaya! I just want to be heard.”