I'm sitting in a bookstore right now and I figure I might as well write my blog out instead of waiting until the wee hours of Monday morning.
I like having the obscure titles that really kind of make people somewhat think but then again I'm kind of odd that way.
I look at this world and see how many people clamor for the attention of others, they mimic others and try to get their 15 minutes of fame like everyone else thinking their self worth is in how successful they might be.
Might be is the key word because not everyone can be successful, at least not in the sense the world would like.
The more money you have, the more hot cars and biggest TV. they have abandoning any sense of purpose set in reality or knowing what real success is.
Not to say that people can't achieve their dreams, they can but what I'm talking about is the fact that they get so involved and consumed with other peoples dreams that they forget to follow their own.
I suppose that's why people get so caught up in celebrity gossip that they can't pull their eyes away to look at their own path.
Besides that everyone likes to know that their hero is only human too, it's only human nature to want to tear others down and watch in giddy glee as they go down in flames.
People want a scapegoat to blame their troubles on or at the very least feel better about their troubles by looking at others trouble.
It's a twisted need to knock society's idols off their pedestal and bring them back to earth.
That's exactly what they are, an Idol and they want to destroy God but since that will never happen they are in constant flux of destroying their old god and building a new one when the old one fails like the last one.
It's like they have the memory of a goldfish in that they seem to be constantly surprised that their idols have failed them, what made them think that this one was going to be any different?
There are people who think that becoming famous makes people turn bad and that but don't you think they would still be who they are despite being rich and famous?
Drug addicted Celebs would still be drug addicted and the cheaters would still cheat, the only difference is that they are known and so people tend to watch what they're doing so it's far more noticeable.
How many people talk about a non-famous coke addict or cheater to a total stranger on the bus or in line at the store?
There are always going to be people who gossip and people who listen even though it does more damage than anything else.
We shouldn't be talk about these people as if their lives were ruined by the spotlight, we shouldn't be treating them any different than any other person on the street.
When we see what's happening in these people's lives we need to remember to pray for these people.
Outside Celebrity infatuation we have local people who seem to clamor to popular people in hopes that it'll be associated in a good way.
People seem to have this misnomer that what other's think is the most important thing in the world when it's not.
It's a fine line between adapting yourself around others and changing who you are as a person to suit what other people want to see. {See my last blog entry.}
If you pander to those who want to change you as a whole you will always be changing every 5 minutes because I guarantee what one person likes another person won't.
What's worse is that we as the human race always want to gain peoples approval when the other people won't be grateful.
Do you think anyone will thank you for being what they want you to be? Changing yourself? agreeing with them completely? No of course they won't so why be anything that you're not.
Now you may say "Yeah but they'll like me" and that may be so for a short while, it's hollow and meaningless, they care about an image not the person.
You could be replaced easy enough by anyone else who appeared the same way, you become plastic and the moment you show through others might get nervous of that.
After all we don't want anything original would we? {can you hear the sarcasm?}
You don't want fake friends that will abandon you in troubles, you want people who like you for everything you are, with all your quirks and oddities.
Popularity is temporal and fleeting thing because in each stage of life our status gets reset.
In grade school we are one person and then move onto Jr. High and it's a whole new beginning, new people come along and then when High school comes it's reset again, in college it again resets and in our work, when we move and every other parts of life we move to.
It doesn't matter what others think, what matters is what God thinks of us and He loves us and thinks we're wonderful even with all our quirks and Oddities and even our faults He loves us.
No matter how hard you try you can't keep up being a fake person for long and if you did manage to do it, it won't be much of a life.
In the end remember that What matters is God, what He thinks of you and that you're on the right path you need to be on because if you take your eyes off the road your on to look at others you'll wind up in the ditch or far off from where you're supposed to be which is far worse to me.
I was never popular as a kid, I didn't find acceptance in myself until my 20's and I'm still finding out about myself.
I was concerned about a lot of people getting married while myself being single but I realized something, I'm not supposed to be married right now, there are things I need to take care of before that is handed to me.
I'm sure I'll talk about dealing with being single in one of my next blogs soon.
Let me leave you with this quote...
"You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time." - Abe Lincoln
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