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Poor Susan Boyle. Well, not necessarily. She’s well on her way to conquering her limitations, despite showing her frailties to the world.
Being in the public eye makes her personal journey more poignant but also more inspiring. Sincerity has its own dignity, so I don’t believe anyone would be thinking less of her for having some emotional scenes in public.
In many ways, we have transferred our dreams onto her. We wish we would have the courage to do what she did. We want her to succeed because she carries many of our hopes and dreams on her shoulders.
She is the destitute orphan child of the fairy tale, suddenly transformed into a princess. Will she marry the prince? Will she live happily ever after?
Her own life journey has accelerated because she had the courage to step into the spotlight. Fame accelerates life lessons
You try a path to see how it works out. Because you are new to the path, you ask for advice, and because you are new, it’s offered from every direction, and you have no way of discriminating what is valuable and what is exploitive. You believe that others know better than you, so you allow them to guide you and shape you, and become trapped in the Pygmalion effect, of behaving as others expect you to behave.
However, at some point, you decide that its not for you. Your integrity roars back into life
But how do you get back to square one to start anew? The façade of the unwanted life begins to crack. Your coping mechanisms no longer cope.
In many cases, a nervous breakdown is simply a nervous breakthrough. It explodes boundaries that others have put around us and are holding us too tightly. Your soul has declared “enough”, and is deconstructing your life, in order to rebuild a healthier alternative.