Knowledge at work- i dream to dream.

youtube.com britains got talent- Susan Boyle sings i dream to dream.

Probably one of the most judgment shattering videos ever seen, the 47 year old unemployed woman tried her luck at the show Britain's got Talent. On walking in, she was the cause for a sequential laughter amongst the audience. Not a very appealing face, and quite awkward in mannerisms, everyone perceived her to be one of those talentless fools, coming to try their luck to gain humorous attention. Everyone in the audience and the judges themselves didn't take her seriously. Claiming she wanted to be like Elane Page, everybody had a sort of gut feeling that she wouldn't be able to sing a straight note. Even the much cynical Simon spoke to her with an undertone of mockery.
But then, she began to sing "I dream to dream" and with less than 5 seconds, the laughing crowd converted to an audience full of fans, giving her a standing ovation. She managed to prove every single person wrong. She went back home with all three yeses, her head held high, and praises from one as rude and egoistical as Simon Cowell.
The video was a shock to me. her voice a shock all around the globe. Most people have the habit of judging another instantaneously. A label is stuck to their foreheads, and they are branded. people have their "gut feelings" about a person which in reality comes out of physical appearances. they perceive a person without reason, or justifications, and most of the time, the labeled person has no real way out of it no matter what they try doing. We see this so often in our everyday lives. A girl is labeled as a loose person. Even if the stories people have heard are simple rumors, or she is dressed to party for an occasion unknown to the onlooker, she gets this label, and people start talking. By the end of a couple of days, her name is associated with being loose, and she is branded for good. Even if the girl tries to change to improve her reputation, no body really gives her a chance. History shows us times where women weren't taken seriously. Where they were inferior, and no matter what they said, they were taken lightly. It is hard to prove a large group of people wrong when you stand alone, because no body likes being proved wrong.
Susan manages this in less that a minute over a hundred people who laughed at her, were now standing up and cheering her on. the so called "gut feelings" were all proved to be wrong, and she stood there, singing as though it was her last laugh. How often do we label people based on appearances? i myself thought it she was crazy wen i first saw the starting, but after being proved wrong i see how so often i might have been proved wrong, but never gave the labeled party that chance. How would i feel if the tables turned, and it was me against the world? its not right to assume before proving, and as a knower, i now know how terribly wrong it is. We all do it, we do it to our peers, to randoms on the road, to our teachers, and to mere acquaintances; and it is wrong. Susan Boyle managed, but often others don't, and so we must think twice, think a million times before sticking a label on a person who might not deserve it. Can we really reason out before letting ourselves make such risky assumptions?? what happens when the assumptions made, and out "gut-feelings" are on matters of more importance? can we always leave it to chance, and wait to see if by that tiny possibility, we are proved wrong? Susan Boyle is a reminder to all of us around the world, that a book must never be judged by its cover!