On or off... stage

Salut,

sitting in the train… For once, I was in the train about 10 minutes before departure… I usually get it at the last minute (and once in a long while… too late…)… It’s a p-day at school today and the activity for the school day care service only starts at 9 so I went to have breakfast at the little café with the kids… they love that… and so do I… :-)

At the time I got in the train, there wasn’t anybody, so I couldn’t really tell you about the cuties around me (‘cause I know you are all craving for that, right?)… But I just added this paragraph as we just got through our 5th of 8 stops (which I rarely do, add paragraphs; you usually get a single stream of consciousness with only a few minor spelling tweaks done afterward). Why do I add this paragraph you think? Come on, I know you can easily guess… yess… that’s it… A good-looking girl just took the side seat right in front of me…

I’m sitting in a front facing seat with no other seats in front of me, but the side seats where she is sitting, so I get a pretty good view of her young body… I would say, she’s about 25… OK, maybe 21… I have no clue… Definitely much younger than me anyway… So I thought I would share this with you by inserting these two new paragraphs here, that I wrote after the rest, but that you get to read before… I love this… And hey, it could have been worst, I could have told you about this even younger red head teenager that got in a few stops ago… but I won’t… OK, now back to what I was writing about 20 minutes ago… ;-)

Tonight is our office Christmas party… Last year we were about 20 (about 12 employees and 8 spouses) and this year we should be about 30… So not too big, yet, not that small either. I used to be part of the Christmas parties organization for the last few years at my previous job, and was usually the MC of the night… Tonight, I’m sharing this task with one of our two interns.

The theme tonight has been suggested by one of our Icelandic colleagues who tried to make us believe that it is a tradition in their country to have the MC(s) motivate people to expose some special talent of their own to entertain the rest of the gang (now you’re starting to see where I was going with the subject of this post :-)…

I have been pretty busy at work these days and my CoMC is not the most vocal guy, so we didn’t succeed much so far in convincing people to sign up to take a part in the entertainment tonight (we both did, each with a partner, but that’s about all we got). But I have a few ideas of how I could convince them on the spot… And I have warned them that they should prepare something because they will go on stage whether they like it or not…

I often wonder what scares people when comes time to express themselves in front a crowed? Other people’s judgment? Lack of self-confidence? Lack of interest? I have a hard time with that, because, for me, it is the other way around… I have a hard time sitting in a room when there is a stage and I’m not on it. So others could ask: “what’s wrong with these people that are always looking for the follow spot?”, and my answer is very simple… IT FEELS SO GREAT!!!

I simply love being on stage… I really miss it when I don’t have opportunities to show my talent in front of a crowed. “Show off!” some people would shout… but of course… What’s wrong with that? Everybody likes to be entertained, right? Everybody likes getting attention, right? OK, some will say: “Ho, he is so much in need of attention, poor kid”… WHY? What is wrong with needing attention? When someone eats do we say: ‘ho, he is so much in need of food, poor kid”… Or when we breathe? OK, I think you get it… :-)

It is true that some people may become annoying with it. We don’t have the same level of endurance regarding entertainment… And we don’t all appreciate the same type of entertainment (don’t worry I won’t get naked with a light shade on my head ;-)… But still, I really get the feeling that many people over exaggerate their fear of stage and thus will also over complain about those who do like to be on stage… Are they just jealous? What do YOU think?

All in all, this is simply about HAVING FUN!!! So why not? :-)

BYE
MAD the stage addict…