No one can be that shallow! Can they?

on the way back to work after a session of afternoon shopping

There is something unique about celebrities. Everywhere they go, intentionally or unintentionally, they are able to attract attention to themselves - drawing the stares of by standers, the flash lights of the paparrazi and bringing gridlock to the traffic. And the even more bizarre thing is how celebritries seem to mate with other celebrities, creating even bigger entities of worship, a la Posh and Becks, Angelina and Brad, Bec and Lleyton and now, Paris and Paris. I assume that it the insaitaiable self perpetuating thing called ego - where the pursuit of acheiving higher notriety and fame is placed over personal goals.

But nevertheless, celebrities capture our attention which ordinary citizens are incapable of. It guess it comes down to a twisted form of envy, where eveyone believes that they should be a celebrity.

This happened to me the other day. After spending the afternoon shopping, I walked out of a rather nice and expensive store clutching this rather big shopping bag. I walked down George Street with all the above happening to me. I felt like a celebrity with all the people were staring at me and with my sunglasses blocking out any flash photography. Traffic also came to a gridlock too....after I tripped crossing the street.

Celebrities do tend to fall over. It is then that the public will pounce and devour them. That is probably why we love celebrities.

posted by tykang @ 6/01/2005 01:49:00 PM