Hello Folks,
I have been feeling that I should write more often than I actually end up doing. But, well lot of things take up my time and I never want to perform writing as a stress busting or a sundry activity. I am making a conscious effort to keep writing without "The Writer's Block" and believe me its difficult.
I have always wondered how is it when you are under a Spotlight ? The feeling when a million pair of eyes are glued upon you with great expectation. The rush of blood, the adrenaline pumping, the heart thumping and palms sweating. A moment of many people's life getting converged into your moment.And yes it can go two ways, either Glory or Gory.
The feeling shudders me with nervousness even thinking about the spectacle. No matter how much accolades you have or you are a novice, every appearance in the spotlight is a new game. Its much like travelling in an air plane, a matter of luck and risk every single time no matter how frequent flier you are. The sad part is there are no half measures, either you win or its curtains.
With the increasing advancements in all the technologies of cameras, communications and media management, the spotlight doesn't remain the moment it used to be. The whole life of a person on a certain pedestal becomes a spotlight and masses know the performer as a "Celeb". Even the growth of a goatee of Amitabh Bachchan made way to the Editorial of a leading newspaper in India.
Life isn't it seems very easy in the rosy frames which can make or break not only a performer's public image but can shatter his life beyond repair. Its treading on a razor's edge as Life in Spotlight can be like Miranda's warning. You will get responses of all sorts of emotions, love, gratitude, praise, stalkers, vengeance, jealousy, critical, etc. The challenge in to respond to right ones and hold your ground otherwise.
The functioning under constant public scrutiny, I feel, is the most difficult part and the biggest challenge one faces. Moral and Ethos have a huge role to play in shaping up what is often known as "BRAND" or "IMAGE" by the pundits of this Spotlight Business. Performers get so carried away by this phenomena and forget the Basic Skill or Activity which got them a chance to be there and eventually get sidelined. Some just break down in the pressure and crumble into hiatus or hibernation. Some fall victim to their own undoing which gets exposed and very few handle it with elan and are remembered for decades to come for of course the right reasons.
There are many examples of such Individuals who have walked the razor's edge with perfect balance and even the few stumbles they had were gracious. Also, there are even more number of examples of people failing and failing miserably just because they couldn't handle the responsibility of being in spotlight. History being cruel it is, only remembers and throws up the successful examples. We as learners, readers and connoisseurs also, only like Happy Endings.
Cheers,
KS
I have been feeling that I should write more often than I actually end up doing. But, well lot of things take up my time and I never want to perform writing as a stress busting or a sundry activity. I am making a conscious effort to keep writing without "The Writer's Block" and believe me its difficult.
I have always wondered how is it when you are under a Spotlight ? The feeling when a million pair of eyes are glued upon you with great expectation. The rush of blood, the adrenaline pumping, the heart thumping and palms sweating. A moment of many people's life getting converged into your moment.And yes it can go two ways, either Glory or Gory.
The feeling shudders me with nervousness even thinking about the spectacle. No matter how much accolades you have or you are a novice, every appearance in the spotlight is a new game. Its much like travelling in an air plane, a matter of luck and risk every single time no matter how frequent flier you are. The sad part is there are no half measures, either you win or its curtains.
With the increasing advancements in all the technologies of cameras, communications and media management, the spotlight doesn't remain the moment it used to be. The whole life of a person on a certain pedestal becomes a spotlight and masses know the performer as a "Celeb". Even the growth of a goatee of Amitabh Bachchan made way to the Editorial of a leading newspaper in India.
Life isn't it seems very easy in the rosy frames which can make or break not only a performer's public image but can shatter his life beyond repair. Its treading on a razor's edge as Life in Spotlight can be like Miranda's warning. You will get responses of all sorts of emotions, love, gratitude, praise, stalkers, vengeance, jealousy, critical, etc. The challenge in to respond to right ones and hold your ground otherwise.
The functioning under constant public scrutiny, I feel, is the most difficult part and the biggest challenge one faces. Moral and Ethos have a huge role to play in shaping up what is often known as "BRAND" or "IMAGE" by the pundits of this Spotlight Business. Performers get so carried away by this phenomena and forget the Basic Skill or Activity which got them a chance to be there and eventually get sidelined. Some just break down in the pressure and crumble into hiatus or hibernation. Some fall victim to their own undoing which gets exposed and very few handle it with elan and are remembered for decades to come for of course the right reasons.
There are many examples of such Individuals who have walked the razor's edge with perfect balance and even the few stumbles they had were gracious. Also, there are even more number of examples of people failing and failing miserably just because they couldn't handle the responsibility of being in spotlight. History being cruel it is, only remembers and throws up the successful examples. We as learners, readers and connoisseurs also, only like Happy Endings.
Cheers,
KS
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