KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

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DON’T BLAME THE DIVA
extraordinary talent has caused less talented people
to feel degraded, less valuable, or less important. In
order to still be able to defend their own self-consciousness
they saw no choice but to look for imperfections
in the seemingly god-like. After all, even
those divas were still human beings; there had to be
at least difficult tempers or capricious moods coming
along with all that unbelievable talent. Anything
else simply wouldn’t be fair.
Well, rules of life, no 1: life is not fair. Looking
for human failure behind a talented face is rather
especially telling about the ones who try to unmask
the divas. Not only because the imperfections that
“normal” people are looking for when critically eyeing
a diva are actually merely human normality. No
one is perfect, sure. But to assume that great talent
necessarily has to come with great disorder of
the personality is a rather obsessive attempt to try
and boost ones own ego at the cost of someone who
may simply is a genius. Who are we to blame him? I
mean, why is there so much obscurity and insecurity
among people when dealing with enormous talent
as well as with people who don’t fit in the image of a
coherent general public? Sure, it might be annoying
to time to be reminded of ones own personality lacking
the talent that those singers, actors, and comedians
have been blessed with. However, one should
always keep in mind that just because someone is
different(ly talented) doesn’t mean he or she is any
more or any less “perfect”, nor any more or any less
human. Considering oneself superior to anyone else
is lacking contact with reality just as much as pigeonholing
people who seemingly don’t fit into any
known categories.
But maybe we can even learn something from our
tendency to do so. What does our being afraid of/
stressed out by overly eccentric people tell us about
our own feelings, about our own perception of reality?
Maybe those who call other people divas for
openly acting out their talents as well as the satisfaction
or happiness that may come it, rather shows
their insecurity in regard to their own talents. Maybe
they are simply afraid that other people standing in
the spotlight could compromise their own integrity,
which has carefully brought into line by education,
peer pressure, and society.
Being afraid of that what is different, or that might
in a way seem “better”, is a very human reaction. I
think, we should try to keep an eye on that human
tendency next time we are tempted to pigeonhole
someone just because he or she is used to dealing