If there’s one word that immediately brings the image of someone to your mind, it may very well be: Celebrity.
Just hearing that word and you
associate it with your favourite fill-in-the-blank star. Many people
want fame, even crave it, because of what we believe life is like for
the famous.
And despite being unfamous, we can all
associate the perks of being a celebrity, including fortune, designer
clothes, valet parking, mansions with pools.
Yet even from the perspective of
peering in on the lives of people we think we know, we can see the
darker side of fame: the isolation, the loneliness.
Celebrities serve a purpose in the
lives of the rest of us, the unknowns. We sometimes glorify their
successes and we, at times, glorify their failures.
They’re not just like us.
What celebrities prove, to us, is that
even fame, and the adoration of millions who send gifts to the wealthy
and the known, is no guarantee that we aren’t alone.