Another person's life may look desirable from the outside, but if you knew anything about their private life no doubt you'd discover all sorts of problems and disappointments and disasters they're carefully hiding from the rest of us behind smiling faces.
They don't have some charmed and magical existence but face the same setbacks and tragedies as everyone else.
I don't understand those people (especially youngsters) who think their lives will be wonderful if they could just become a super-model or a movie star or a famous footballer. Or any kind of celebrity. Be careful what you wish for.
If you have personal experience of any of those supposedly glittering lifestyles, you'd know the reality is very different from the glamorous image. Models for example will soon tell you they don't just swan around the world looking gorgeous, they have to work in freezing cold and scorching heat and maintain an ultra-thin figure. Hardly a magical existence.
Everybody has issues. That's just life.
ReplyDeleteBijoux: Quite right. Smiling faces can hide very difficult lives.
DeleteWhen comparing how you feel with how others look you will lose every time.
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Linda: Very true. A futile exercise.
DeleteI wouldn't mind being the people who won the lottery twice.
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Ms Scarlet: Yes, that would be very pleasant (English under-statement)
DeleteI think perhaps I have been too busy keeping my own life afloat to think much about having someone else's.
ReplyDeleteSandra: Good point. I would say the same about my own life. Though it's hard to escape all the media articles glamorising fame and fortune.
DeleteMostly I've thought things like, I wouldn't want that life. Actors have no privacy, celebrities attract a lot of crazy fans, ect. Might not be the best life, but I'll just keep mine and do the best I can.
ReplyDeleteMary: As you say, celebrities just attract lots of deranged fans, torrents of abuse, stalkers and media fabrications. Who needs all that?
DeleteI know from lurking on blogs that some youngsters have a hankering for some earlier decade—and two separate people in my romantic reservist outfit (think territorial army) dressed like our birth decade, the 1950's... but at the end of the day I have to admit the '50's would be a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. Because I wouldn't be acclimated: "there's no place like home."
ReplyDeleteFor me, a good anti-dote to glamour was taking the odd theatre class with in college.
Sean: Agreed, the 50s would be nice to visit but not much fun to stay in. And yes, I can imagine the theatre class would bring people back to reality.
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