I have learnt a very valuable life lesson on the weekend....and as usual it was delivered through the medium of public humiliation, something of a common theme running through my life. The most powerful lessons always seem to come with very intense emotional experience, whether it is humiliation, pain, fear, or deep regret.
It was my sisters birthday on the weekend, and we had tickets to see a very well known comedian who was performing in Brisbane. SO off we trotted all ablaze with anticipation and alchohol (except me as the designated driver). The performance was AWESOME, I laughed so hard I thought I was going to turn inside out. Then after the performance, said comedian was at the bar, and pumped up on laughter, I thought it would be fun to see if he would come over and wish my sister happy birthday. So I sidled on up to him at the bar and tried to act casual, but something about being in the presence of a c-list celebrity made me go a little gaga and I completely forgot what I was going to say, and instead made some bizarre request for him to come and flirt with my sister in front of her new boyfriend!?!??!? To which he replied "I'm kinda tired....so.....no." and turned his back on me, which left me standing at the bar in front of a heap of people looking like I'd hit on him and been rejected, which is what it felt like. God I wished I had turned inside out during the performance!!
So my lesson was, don't approach famous people 'coz they really are better than the rest of us! ;-) Unless ofcourse you are thin, gorgeous and skimpily dressed, then you can talk to whomever you want....apparently!
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