sing out loud somewhere other than the shower and the car where no one can hear me

I went out for a karaoke night with some friends and some friends of friends and so on and I did my first on my own karaoke (usually we drink too much and end up collectively doing things no one knows the words to anyway like ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’ and ‘Blinded by the Light.’) I’m glad I did it, but I’ll never do it again. All those people looking at me was really not my thing. At least now I know I’ll never give up my life to join a rock band!

I may have come up with the solution to this. One of the guys I volunteer with was saying that we should take a portable CD player in during the Food Pantry hours and sing while we pull and bag the groceries. I’m game for that.

I can sing. I’m not going to ever end up on stage at Carnegie Hall or on Broadway or anything, but I can carry a tune and I have decent tone to my voice. But I don’t sing anymore except when no one can hear me. When I was kid, I was in the church choir. In high school, I was part of the elite choir and as an undergrad, I was always around people who were singing and we’d always sing together. I miss that. Now, I sing in the shower or in the car, but never around people. I’m always afraid they’ll hear me.