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by silvercamaro » Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:42 am
For me, it was and is all about the challenge.
I've always loved quiz shows, but having lived in the middle of the country, I never considered myself a likely contestant. Millionaire's phone game suddenly made that seem theoretically possible, but I never got a single callback. By the time the auditions were instituted, however, my image of myself as a prospective contestant had changed. I was not selected from the first audition, but that only proved to increase my determination to figure out what it would take. In the process, my conception of "wasting money on taking another audition trip" was converted to "investing in myself."
I was happy to win some money, but it wasn't as much as I would have liked at the time. In retrospect, it turned out to be exactly as much as I needed for what was most important to me. My show offered me the opportunity to feel "smart" and humbled within the same stack of questions, and "glory" is a relative term. The single best feel-good moment came via a 12-year-old I knew from dance class, who might well have thought of me as an eccentric older woman, but who told her mother with delight, "Mom, my friend Judy is going to be on television!"
So now I want to be on Jeopardy! I can't pretend that I wouldn't have been a relatively better J! contestant when I was 30 or 40, but I don't care. It's about the challenge of trying to get there. If I make it, I fully intend to spend more than third-place winnings on the trip to the taping, just to insure that I remain motivated about that darn signal button.
The next game show is my Mount Everest. It's there, and it needs to be conquered.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.