A Change of Mind; A Change of Heart
The phone rang at 7:36pm on Friday April 18th, 2008.
What was I doing? Well, I was comatose on the couch flipping between reruns of Fresh Prince of Belair and America’s Funniest Home Videos. Not thinking anything of it, I reached over to the coffee table picked up the phone and answered with a horse “YEELLLLO”.
Seconds later, I realized it was the America’s Got Talent casting agent. She was confirming my audition for the next day. And for some strange reason… I had a change of mind; a change of heart. I accepted. I decided to go. I told her my audition song, and told her I’d be there at 3pm the next day. I barely had a voice and barely had the strength to get up. But my heart wanted me to go. I hung up the phone, turned off the tv and walked over to my dad sitting in the dining room. With a ragged voice and hair disheveled I asked him,
“How does a drive to New York sound?”.
He looked at me for a second, confused about my new decision. But without question, and with little hesitation he said, “Let’s Go For It”.
I walked upstairs, with a smile from ear to ear. I knew my past of being rejected from Talent America was hurtful, but why should that stop me? Why should I live in fear of my past? This was my time now. This was a chance of a lifetime and I can’t believe I even THOUGHT of letting it pass. Never again will I let opportunity pass me by. Starting that day. My life was an adventure, and a journey I was so eager to begin.
America’s Got Talent Season 3. New York Audition.
