YouTube Girl and Dreams

It was the lunch break this Monday. After finishing my lunch, I wanted to watch some music videos on YouTube. Actually, I was looking for a new song from Taylor Swift. I opened the application on my cell phone, and searched the song’s name.

Most search engines (YouTube search, Google, etc.) tend to sequence the results in descending order according to how many people like each of them. That means, the most popular video should be on the top of the page, the least popular one at the end. Considering the song was originally composed and performed by Taylor Swift, the singer who had already won several Grammy Awards, I thought the first result that came up should be exactly what I wanted.

I admit I was a little surprised when I found Taylor Swift wasn’t the top. However, the top video was exactly the same song I looked for, but it was covered by an unknown artist. Wondering how a nameless girl could beat the famous Taylor Swift, I clicked into the covered video.

I was really astonished when I heard her voice!!! The song, even just a covered one, was incredible!!! The covered version is way much better that the original one. It was one of the best covered songs I had ever listened to!

Out of curiosity, I rolled down the page to see what other songs this girl had sung before. It turned out that all the videos in her YouTube channel were songs covered from other famous singers, no original pieces. Her earliest video was uploaded about 2 years ago.  In that video, she was wearing a T-shirt and jeans and, just like any girl who wants to become a star one day, sitting in her room, holding a guitar, recorded the video on her cell phone. I could even see Michael Jackson in the poster on the wall.

Yet, now, two years after that, her latest video was recorded in a studio. Perhaps it is just one tenth the size of Taylor Swift’s studio, one twentieth the size of Madonna’s, but anyway she had a studio to work in now.

In a video called “”, she thanked all those people who supported her on YouTube. She was in tears and said she learnt a lot from all the pain and sorrow she went through in the past two years.

Seeing this, I was suddenly moved.

Even though she is still nobody compared with those famous singers, she did move forward and tried hard to reach her dream. She knew how hard it is to become a real star, but she chose her road, and went on without hesitation.

How many of us would always let dream guide us, and just follow it through hard and thin? Several years later, when we are all old, how many of us can say we have lived our life without regrets? We dare not to peruse our dreams simply because we are afraid that we may fail. Yet if it’s really our dream, it should be something that we can sacrifice whatever we have to realize. Just follow the call deep inside, live a life with no regrets.