What’s in the news today? Well, one of the top stories on MSN.com is focused on some extortion case, involving John Travolta. Yeah, I remember him doing that, wasn’t it called Pulp Fiction? Oh, we’re concerned about his personal life. Let’s paste his testimony about the death of his son on the Internet. So that an obviously deeply personal moment can be viewed by millions of people all around the world.
What is it about these people that make us so interested in their lives, but the lives of our neighbors are less than important. Yes, I understand that these people knew that becoming a “Star” would include mass exposure of their personal lives. But do we really need to get so worked up about it?
I mean, how many weeks has it been Michael Jackson been dead, & we still are so concerned what will happen to his kids and other “property”. Then there is was the incident at the Grammy’s. So Kanye West is a total jerk, did you really need to replay his moment of stupidity to get it. Everyone had an opinion about that, even Pres Obama said that he was a jack ass.
The point is, we get so intrigued by the lives of the stars, that we forget that they’re real people also. That when a family member dies, they want to grieve over their loss, often in a private setting. And that sometimes they do something rude and uncalled for, so what happened to the sentiment of forgive and forget.
And for the all we invest in becoming intimate with these distant figures, what do we have left to share with our families, our neighbors, our communities? We were so angry about Kanye making young Taylor Swift cry, but when we are unconcerned if we see this kind of thing happen on the street. There are so many people who need that comfort, that interest.
Go next door and ask your neighbor if they would like to get something to eat. Take the time to get to know them. Lend a hand when they are in need. These are our communities, what have those celebrities contributed to us? So Oprah gives away a few cars a week, ever wonder how she can afford that kind of “charity”? Each time she does something humanitarian, she also gains about a hundred new viewers. She benefits just as much, if not more from her acts of kindness.
Our benefits could be; peaceful streets, cleaner neighborhoods, brotherhood and fellowship. The quality of life would sky rocket! But do you have the time?