The biggest viral sensation! The story of a homeless man with a God-given voice. An amazing voice. The voice thousands of companies spending countless hours search for every day. He’s been out there for 14 years with this great voice that no one knew about or paid any attention to.
And then he got discovered. A newspaper reporter with a camera took interest in him and shot some video from his car. He put it up on his newspaper’s website and within 2 days, the world knew him and he had offers of work from hundreds of companies. Major companies. High profile. He’s on the Today Show. It’s the American dream come true. We cheer for him in a jumping up and down sort of way. We talk to others about him and his unbelievable story. We are happy for him that he’s pulled himself out of ruin. We are totally on his side.
The Today Show anchors are worried about him. What’s different this time? Now that you have this great fame, will you go back to the things that ruined you when you only had a modicum of fame?
Whatever happened to him over those years on the street where he found faith and hope, you can only hope, that this discovery was made in God’s time. And that all that he went through has prepared him for this. That now is the time.
But we are crabs in a pot. If you put one crab in a pot, he’ll climb out. The sure way to keep the crab in a pot is to put another one in with him. If one tries to get out, the other one will pull it back in.
If Ted Williams becomes too successful, or more successful than we think he should, will we hound him and hound him and pull him back in the pot where he’s equal or lower than us? Will we, even in our excitement, let him have success?
Concurrently, there’s a story running about a weather anchor in New York who claimed she was attacked in Central Park. According to my memory of the story, it turns out she made it all up. The story held talk that she would never work in that city or probably any city as a weather person again. How could anyone trust her?
I’m sure many people felt the same sentiment for the homeless man as well. Yet time heals, lets us change and grow and start anew. Let us let that happen. Call off the hounds. May we all move on.
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