Yesterday, Oprah featured a full program about my favorite website, YouTube. For those who missed it, it featured some of the people who have become famous due to YouTube, like the skateboarding dog. Oprah has also launched her own channel on YouTube, available here.
But by far the most breathtaking segment was with the cell phone salesman-turned-opera singer, Paul Potts. He was discovered on Britain's "Britain's Got Talent" show, a show he only did after flipping a coin. Honestly, take a minute and watch this. If you do not get overwhelmed with emotion, then you have no heart.
The most beautiful part of the Oprah show was when Paul discussed how he got started singing opera. He said he did it as a refuge from all the bullies that used to harass him at his school when he was young.
I am amazed over and over by this world we live in, and the fact that something so beautiful as this man's voice is born out of something so horrible as being bullied. Anyone who has been bullied in their own past (or now), be it because of your looks, weight, or sexual orientation, can take faith in Paul Potts. As he has sold a million copies of his first record, and as his fame will only continue to grow after his exposure on the Oprah show, I have to wonder where those bullies are now. Something tells me their life is but a shadow of Paul's.
Hear, hear!
