Did you know that celebrities are just people like you? I didn't.
Growing up they were like stars in the sky who you can only see and admire.
Only when a friend or family became a celebrity I realised, arre ye toh same hai!
Only thing that made them different was the early onset of focus and determination and the ensuing hard work they took on and didn’t stop at all.
My awe of the stars then diminished substantially and in its place I saw an awareness develop slowly. I say slowly because I was a die hard non hard worker and tried to giggle through life thinking that’s what was most important. Then as I got into my late forties did I realize the blatant importance of hard work.
You see spurts of hard work that one does as examination syndrome is not considered at all. So I was completely inexperienced in this field.
Have you heard of the phrase - ‘Takes one to know one’? Well here too it applies. One does not at all know hard work till you have yourself indulged for a longer period of say 3 years at least. And I will not consider the education degrees which incidentally follow a similar timeline. You have to drudge sincerely through all the hardships for the said period before you succeed or yes miserable fail. C'est la vie. Don't say I didn't warn you before you start all the hard work etc.
Coming back to celebrities. You know not everyone analyzes them so intently. Most people just use them, objectify them, pay them etc. But my unique sense of useless righteousness allows me to dig deeper and bring the person out of the celebrity. Most of the time they are acutely disinterested in this but then how do I justify my smallness in front of their brilliance?
I personally have friends, not celebrities. I have never paid a celebrity to advertise my product. I have two reasons for it. First, I dont have the money. Second, well that's it.
Luckily the celebrities had their own reasons for wearing my product and I am ever thankful to them for shining some of their brilliance on me.
Come to think of it, even using them as advertisements takes a lot of work. For eg this article is my vain attempt to use them to promote my product. It comes after years of postponing and procrastination most of which comes easily to my ADHD brain. Of course the self doubt and remorse for publishing shall follow undoubtedly.
However, here it ends. Hope you enjoyed my dabble and ramble and I further hope that you will click on the links and shop these products whose brilliance matches the lovely celeb friends who adorn it.