Celebration

Celebration, as a society we love to celebrate. Birthdays, Holidays, Office Parties, New Years, TV Shows, Game Shows, Get togethers. Any excuse we can get to have a party, people will exploit it to it's fullest extent. Mostly for cake. We also love to celebrate specific people in our society. Those elites of our culture that make us believe that what we want is to be like them. We idolize them to the point of obsession. Celebrity culture is not one of fame and fortune. Nor is it about being wild and going against what we believe to be moral. It's about celebrating what we as a society are not. We celebrate because things that do not occur on a regular basis. We celebrate what we do not have as normal people. Celebrities in our culture exonerate the opposite of the mundane. What ever that is? Apparently people want to be in the movies, make music, play sports, or be a politician. There are no garbage man celebrities. It's because celebrities bring celebrity upon themselves, and people love to watch. We love the things that we can't have. It doesn't even mean that we want the things that we can't have. We love the things that matter least in our lives. The things we don't want and the things we can't have. The things we would never want to be and the things that we could never be. The life not lived. The grass is always greener. As long as we tell stories people will always want to be what they can't be. That is the nature behind celebrity and celebration. Instead of longing for the unknown, we should begin to examine our own locale and find out why we are here in the first place and whether this is where we belong. The only things that truly matter in life are the things that we can change. Changing for disastrous consequences or not.