Rock the Crowd

"Everybody is a Star..."
-the legendary Roots Crew, from "Star", The Tipping Point

I went to a concert this past weekend. It was a good performance. What interested me most was how devoted the performer's faithful fans were to her. They hung onto her every word, and watched her every movement. The crowd was hers from the time she hit the stage, until she left after the encore. That night, she did something that we all, every one of us, wants to do at some point in our lives. She rocked the crowd.

Having long since given up on my not so prodigious athletic talents, and not being very confident in my vocal or rhyming talents, I too, like everyone else on the Earth (I am convinced), want to be a star. Maybe the quest for stardom is why I labor on the Charles, enduring tundric conditions now far beyond the Ides of March. Certainly, this is why I picked barristry over solictry. Cause I want to stand up and rock the crowd. And I ain't no baller, no MC, or nobody's preacher. In fact, I'm an ordinary dude. I'm taking the geek route to stardom. Verbal superiority through barristry.

Is there a tension between this and my other posts? (See Wish I Could Take Us All...) Certainly. But maybe a zest for stardom is not diametrically opposed to the calling of public service. Maybe someone can be both star and dedicated public servant, ie Dr. Martin L. King, Mother Teresa, Barack Obama. Maybe this is a fanciful, unrealistic notion; and the star servant eventually implodes, or is exposed, ie Jesse Jackson.

So if there is a conflict, then know that for all my self righteous, "transcend the material" talk, I too want to be that boy. Just like you do. And everybody else.