I absolutely am annoyed at how disrespectful Paula Abdul is to Simon. If I were a contestant, I think I would listen to and heed Simon's words of WISDOM more than hers. All she does is praise the kids in this weird motherly manner. Telling the little girl from “Lion King” that she is a star is a very nice compliment. It offers her no constructive criticism and that is what I would expect. But every time Simon gives his opinion, the others have to pipe in and interupt him. HE never interupts them when THEY talk. What the hell is this all about? It bugs me. I guess it gives me a good example of what it is like to be interupted and how annoying it can be. See? Life lessons learned from mindless television!
I'm into Idol for the first time. I always watched it from the sidelines and never watched it from the very beginning. It's exciting and for a performer, it is very inspiring and educational.
What I don't like about myself is that I am way too self critical. There is a point where criticism is good but then you have to balance out with feeling good about yourself and praising your self and most importantly celebrating the good things about yourself and giving yourself credit where credit is due.
I head a lot of criticism when I was growing up. I also felt like I had to seek praise from my parents. Yes, they were very supportive but it was never detailed. It was more of a general praise... “I was a GOOD kid.” Ofcourse, in my case, being closeted, I noted to myself that they were saying, the facade was a good kid. If they knew the secret I was hiding, I probably wouldn't have still been “good.”
Years later, I know that this is not the case, although one never knows what someone REALLY thinks. But then that isn't important. One never need to seek praise from others. It's a bad habit. It gets in the way of you just trusting your own instinct and knowing that what you are doing is the best that you can do.
I feel like, for many years I have gotten in the way of doing the best that I could do.