If this video doesn’t make your skin crawl from head to toe, or at least make your eyes sparkle with tears… you’re already dead!
Thanks by the millions to my brother Carlos, for sending me this wonderful video, pure inspiration, legitimate inspiration, inspiration to the arteries straight to the heart. How great! As he added in the message he sent me, it inspires and makes you think about how much we can support each other in achieving our dreams.
Here is what elperiodico.com wrote:
He appeared shy, shaky and crestfallen on stage. “What do you have in store for us?” one of the three members of the critical jury of Britain’s got talent, a sort of X Factor or Operación Triunfo, asked him. “I sing opera,” replied Paul Potts, a 36-year-old cell phone salesman. The jury couldn’t suppress a humiliated smile, as did some of the audience.
Until he started singing. After a shuddering — for cool, not for bad — version of Nessun Dorma, both audience and jury wept with emotion. And since then, just a week ago, Britons have been wondering how it could be that this insecure, unassuming man from Wales has never set foot on a lyrical stage and spends his hours trying to sell cell phones.
As a child, bullied by peers, Paul would run away in song. Now, after winning Saturday’s semi-final, he will surely win the contest, £100,000 and a performance before Queen Elizabeth. Britain has a new star.
After the emotion that Paul spreads with his simple look of love, his humble smile and that spectacular voice, I go to sleep moved by the conviction that indeed, nothing is impossible and every dream can come true. For this reason, we have to be very clear about what we dream of, that the odds are in our favor that they will happen if you wish for them with absolutely everything in your being.
Carlos, once again, thank you for allowing me to go to sleep with this wonderful emotion that we have shared with you also here in this blog.
A big hug,
Jorge