Reading on the last thread about the real anxieties for Adam and new music...
I
used to be anxious all the time for Adam.
I completely understand the idea of ‘stomach ulcers’. But the moment I looked on this as
just his job, a lot changed for me.
Those of us who have supported Adam from the start were embroiled in what felt like his daily fight to find success. I thought he was leaving Idol to become an instant superstar and the ups and downs that followed seemed interminable...how easily he could have become another Idol who had had his fifteen minutes. The goalposts kept moving. I was constantly in anxious mode.
I wonder if many of us got stuck in that mode, however subconsciously, when he has slowly and surely had enormous success - even if he doesn’t produce top ten singles as we perhaps assumed ‘success’ to be initially.
There was never going to be one moment of ‘this is it’; it’s a continuous process;
this has become just Adam’s job.Adam has a great job...established....already ‘Longevity’.
He lives with money, luxury and beauty; it gives him a platform to do wonderful things on a personal level and have great influence on a social level.
He is earning a place in history without being buried unseen and unrewarded in a lab for twenty years, looking for some kind of cure....
But his job is not his whole life. He has attained so much positive infrastructure on which to build a
whole life....
how is a super-hit song going to change that now?How is it going to improve his daily life or insulate him from the natural lows of reality which we all face from time to time?
Would he swap NE being at number 1 on the charts for his relationship with Javi?...not for a second. I would imagine.
And if one step is successful, will the anxiety for the next be perpetual?
So...I ask myself these days when something is in the pipeline.....what will this do for Adam’s life overall? What great change will it bring when he is no longer poor and struggling to be have his talent recognised?
There is an aura about Adam now, that he has looked at all this with new eyes, got it into proportion. He looks like a man with a great job...and a great life. Rounded. Won’t be perfect for him but whose life is?
I don’t worry anymore.
I hope this doesn’t become something negative that I didn’t foresee...
....just thoughts on something I sympathise with...while I am sleeplessly on retreat in the back-of-beyond.
I am risking detention in using my iPad.