Just Because You’re Ugly Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Sing!

Some of you are too young to remember … But. There was a time when what you looked like held no bearing on your popularity – your “making it” — as a singer. It was only with the advent of MTV that we became a video obsessed world.

But, face it, in reality you don’t have to be good looking to sing.

Besides, faces not only reveal a lot, they can also hide a lot!

One of my seminary instructors used to say: “By the time you’re 40, you’ve got the face you’ve earned!”

Wow.

Now that’ll make one take a double-take in the ol’ mirror … “By the time you’re 40, you’ve got the face you’ve earned.”

But …

Is that really true? I mean, hey, are you talking about my morning face? The one at mid-afternoon? Or the happy, cheesy, plastic one reserved for Olan Mills and pictures at Christmas?

Exactly WHICH face are you referring to?

I have the pleasure of serving with two wonderful priests: one younger, the other older, than myself. I mentioned to Fr Joseph the older, one Sunday morning: “You know you’re getting old when you refuse to look in the mirror for about the first hour of your day.”

He said, “Oh no …”

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