Week: April/May 26-2 2009, Question 1

Week: April/May 26-2 2009, Question 1

Why do we practically worship celebrities?

Even if you're not at the rabid fan or stalker level this question can still be answered by you. Why do we look at celebrities as if they are some kind of incredible deity? It could be the money, the fame, the power or having the ability to travel all over the world if you felt like it. Now a celebrity can be from many different professions, but for today we will focus on the biggest of them all, TV and movie stars. We envy TV and movie stars because they have a lot of the things we don't. In that they have more money than we do so that leads to most of the other things we don't have. To me i guess celebrity worship is beyond me, i do like certain actors and actresses but usually not for their money or talent. It's pretty much just for the character they played, to make even the most mundane character memorable is an impressive skill that belongs to both the script writer and the actor. So why do people worship celebrities? Well it's because we think that they have all of the things we don't, unless you're one of those few people that believe that love and family are the only important things in life. Want to have a taste at the celebrity lifestyle? Then put on the most flashy weird clothes you can find and walk down the street one day, i guarantee you will turn a few heads just like the celebrities do.

Thought for the day: If a celebrity has a geeky hobby does that make them any less of a "cool" person?