Redação da Cultura [2]

To begin with I'd say that life at XX century is sort of undefined. People are no longer born with plans already made, a life already planned, so it leaves us to a very diverse society, where people are different from each other, and have different goals in life. "The new religion" when it comes to life style is fame. Despite the fact that celebrities and gossips are everywhere around the globe, the number of wannabes increases more and more each day.
The idea of being famous is usually followed by the thought of goddess, of power. People want to be known, recognized, rich; they wanna go to preppy events, wearing preppy dresses and being snapped at preppy magazines. They think that's heaven, and hanker after it as if their entire lives depended on their success. The whole concept of fame is very appealing to humans, who, since their beginning, always chased acknowledge.
But the most important idea to me is the heaven one, that is being annexed to fame itself. People think that celebrities live the "once upon a time", "happily ever after", kind of live, but as a matter of fact, recent polls are showing that happiness is all about what they call PMA (Positive Mental Attitude); pessimists are sadder no matter how much money they have. Heaven is a higher vibration of thought than just happiness.
On the other hand, there definitely are people who disdain celebrities and all by saying, for example, that "A celebrity is a person who is payed a disproportionately large amount of money, but does a disproportionately small amount of work.", or "a lucky slacker multi-millionaire. Rarely has more talent than you or me.". Some go even further by saying that "Celebrities are worthless. (...) All they do is act\sing\get naked\some other thing that we don't need and they get millions of dollars for.". I'd personally say that "celebrities are the ones that we all love to loathe. I mean, think about it: Famous people are the focus of weekly gossip magazines, newspapers even boys-bar talk. Some people become so obsessed with the famous that are practically able to do anything to meet them, rub shoulders with them, or even destroy them.
To conclude with, I'd say that fame is good to a certain extent, but the lack of privacy really sucks. "Heaven is happiness beyond what you would ever hope to wish for and hell is torture for which there is no description.", so I don't really think that it applies to celebrities and life styles.
In my opinion, the famous are presented with the best and worse desires of everybody else: recognition and hatred. Inside each and every one of us there's a tiny "little" star that sparkles to the thought of acknowledgment and that's what celebrities are all about.