We all love to imagine being something we’re not. Filling someone one else’s shoes in a shallow form of fantastical escapism. The public turns to media and media turns to the public for mutual nourishment that perpetuates itself through all the crevices of the world where its word can be spoken. If we aren’t examining the lives of others, we begin to question our own. Celebrities are ample targets for our prying eyes. Rising merely from the satisfaction they bring to the masses seeking relief; getting lost in the worlds of the rich and powerful. Easy prey for a discontent world.
Most of us are not satisfied with ourselves. The lives we have created are never how we have imagined them. We can lie to ourselves about our positions but all know, in the pits of our chests, that there is another place we would rather be. Whatever that is, the media monster has your vice. Television, magazines, and film know everyone, because everyone is the same. That’s how the creature is fed. The media is not what causes an obsession, we are. We continue to feed a creature that needs to be fed. Stop feeding and it dies. We must stop the indulgence to stop the fascination.
We need something to compare our own lives to, without that there would be no desire to rise. Frankly, it would be unsettling. It is just that, there is such ample material to compare ourselves to, on a global scale, it can be overwhelming. We sometimes lose sight of our own desires and aspirations in the face of a need to fit and mold into a societal ideal. These two natural goals should be properly balanced to achieve a state of real happiness. Those who lose sight of this get locked in a vicious cycle of wanting, realizing and wanting more that will repeat itself until one can find the strength to overcome it.
Celebrities are the spokespeople of idealism. They are generally widely accepted as the current ideal of whatever they are famous for. Whatever we seek, we find someone to look up to. While they may be helpful it is essential that we spend less time examining these people and more time acting to improve upon ourselves. It is much easier to sit back and watch than to get up and do. They have risen to the top because of those who admire them, those who go and purchase their merchandise. They have garnered great riches and fame with relatively little work and an abundant amount of luck.
For some, the famous seem to become part of an everyday lifestyle; for most even. We lose sight of where we need to spend our time. Rather than fantasize and absorb a televisions radiating glow, people should be occupying themselves with more productive tasks. This is one of the many points where society has let down humankind for its own benefit, allowing us to sit down and be its puppet for our entire lives. Celebrities are simply a method of controlling that fits so nicely within our own mental design that we allow ourselves to be absorbed by it. The subjectivity of beauty is sometimes overruled by our objective nature.
