Welcome to the blog. I think this might be too introspective to be of interest to anyone but me. However, if you like to read my crazy ramblings, then by all means, enjoy.
Today I was thinking about karaoke. For serious. I love performing for a crowd and getting a positive reaction. Sure, I've gotten up on that stage and had only mildly null reactions, but never really 100% negative reactions. It seems like if people aren't into it, they'll just clap quietly or not at all.
I took a public speaking class once in college and the instructor (a man who smoked a pipe and wore elbow patches - ya, no kidding) told us that if you make eye contact with a person in the crowd, they will most likely smile back at you, helping to boost your confidence if you are having a fearful moment. When you're a face in a crowd and the speaker or singer makes eye contact with you, suddenly you are somebody. The audience wants you to succeed: they want to be entertained.
Nobody wants to see you fail. Nobody really wants to see anybody else fail...
unless you're skateboarding. Then it's only interesting if you fall.
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