I feel amused to see what extent people go to in idiolising their favourite film stars, sportpersons and other celebritis. Here in India (especially in the southern India) almost every film star has a temple built in his name where his idol is worshipped! I cannot help but marvel at the idiots who do this and there are a good number.
If we try to understand what causes a person to indulge in such blind idolatory and celebrity worship, what causes a person to take needless interest in the lives of celebrities, their sordid love affairs, private lives and waste his time in reading gossip magazines and aticles, it is nothing but inner poverty. I feel sad to see people savouring every drop of juicy gossip abut celebrities that is printed in mags and newspapers. If a person's own life is lacking in richness, he seeks that richness in the lives of other people and usually it is celebrities and well known people. Such people live unconsciously and do not even try to probe their own potential and divinity. Many a times when a person harbours an overdose of admiration for someone, especially a celebrity, he subconciusly starts beleiving that he himself can never achieve good things in life and very subtly an inferiority complex starts developing. He starts thinking that if he cannot become famous he is an unsuccessful person. He forgets that greatness and success have nothing to do with fame. This sort of attitude has led to an absurdly high valuation of fame in our society. People forget that one can be very successful and great even without being famous. Some of the greatest people on this earth have not been famous or even well known - they have been the real salt of the earth.
It is OK to have admiration for someone but when that admiration becomes an obsession and takes one away from one's self and makes him give imortance to so called role models rather than one's own self, it is detrimental to one's being. One must love one's own self the most for only then richness can enter one's life. This is not being selfish because this is what is most important for a person to do. Success is measured by only one parameter and that is
happiness and true happiness can never be achieved if one's life lacks richness and richness cannot enter if one does not love himself the most.
At the cost of digressing, I would also like to emphasise that since fame is so overvalued in our society, it leads to a lot of inequalities. Why is that film stars, sportpersons earn such astronomical sums of money while the research scientist, the social worker and coutless other people who do far more good to the world than celebrities, have to struggle for funds?
If we try to understand what causes a person to indulge in such blind idolatory and celebrity worship, what causes a person to take needless interest in the lives of celebrities, their sordid love affairs, private lives and waste his time in reading gossip magazines and aticles, it is nothing but inner poverty. I feel sad to see people savouring every drop of juicy gossip abut celebrities that is printed in mags and newspapers. If a person's own life is lacking in richness, he seeks that richness in the lives of other people and usually it is celebrities and well known people. Such people live unconsciously and do not even try to probe their own potential and divinity. Many a times when a person harbours an overdose of admiration for someone, especially a celebrity, he subconciusly starts beleiving that he himself can never achieve good things in life and very subtly an inferiority complex starts developing. He starts thinking that if he cannot become famous he is an unsuccessful person. He forgets that greatness and success have nothing to do with fame. This sort of attitude has led to an absurdly high valuation of fame in our society. People forget that one can be very successful and great even without being famous. Some of the greatest people on this earth have not been famous or even well known - they have been the real salt of the earth.
It is OK to have admiration for someone but when that admiration becomes an obsession and takes one away from one's self and makes him give imortance to so called role models rather than one's own self, it is detrimental to one's being. One must love one's own self the most for only then richness can enter one's life. This is not being selfish because this is what is most important for a person to do. Success is measured by only one parameter and that is
happiness and true happiness can never be achieved if one's life lacks richness and richness cannot enter if one does not love himself the most.
At the cost of digressing, I would also like to emphasise that since fame is so overvalued in our society, it leads to a lot of inequalities. Why is that film stars, sportpersons earn such astronomical sums of money while the research scientist, the social worker and coutless other people who do far more good to the world than celebrities, have to struggle for funds?
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