by z.mccann

Created on: March 05, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

I don't suppose people will ever stop wanting to look at beautiful people but human beings are fickle creatures, what is beautiful today may not be thought so tomorrow.

The word celebrity defines as "the state or quality of being widely honoured and acclaimed" The biggest flaw I see with the celebrity culture of today is how much, or how little, is required to become highly "acclaimed". I don't blame the celebrities themselves; I blame us, the celebrity consumers.

There are people out there who are deserving of the title "celebrity"; they are not just surface beautiful. These are people who've worked hard in whatever their profession and through an admirable work ethic, have risen high in their field or earned some kind of accolade. These might be sports men or women, actors and actresses, doctors and nurses. They might even be sudden Heros through acts of bravery but they will be, for whatever reason, deserving of admiration and remembrance.

The high street gossip column celebrity is all about looks, but in the superficial world of this celebrity, beauty is only skin-deep and fleeting. The forgivable nose jobs of yesterday may be the unforgivable sins of tomorrow and no one really cares. People dictate "hot or not", celebrity is commodity, so long as folk are talking, gossip sells. The real people, behind these celebrity tags don't matter; the pennies they earn behind the scenes do.

Today's celebrity culture bothers me. It bothers me some of the people are young choose to look up too but I'm not all together naive. We make mistakes in life, we learn from them and we move on. When it comes to celebrities I feel the most sorry for them. Very often these beautiful people, worth looking at, are very young. Will they be given a chance to make their mistakes and grow, or will we, the very people who put them where they are, blame, resent and destroy them?

Longevity in celebrity requires length
in the journey to the top
and strength
in who you are;
so they cannot knock you off!

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