Lost in Thought.....

Our status in the food chain is dependent upon the environment in which we puff our parade and are tailgated by our entourage.

If you’re a celebrity apprentice, instantly you become a celebrity by association. Which means everything comes easily, swiftly and money is no object. People call you back and stroke your ego because of who you work for.

Hand-me-down fame; your famous employer makes you a social celebrity which means everyone your connected with is a celebrity too! From the dry cleaner that presses the dirty knickers, to the housekeeper that knows how much of a pig your famous person is and hides so many dirty secrets from Perez Hilton…… But sadly, if you find yourself sans celebrity - doors shut, no one calls you back and you have to reinstate your civilian status.

Thankfully, having been taught under the tutelage of greatness, you’ve learned to elude the title of “civilian.” One can appear to be someone of importance, merely by their own inflated sense of self. One might frequent a Starbucks, where the staff know your name and for big shot sake, you know theirs. Your drink is promptly made the moment you grace them with your presence. Always superseding the line, whisk the coffee from the barista’s hand and off you go. No longer do you pay because of your caffeine offender status, the air of being larger than life and of course, putting a 20 spot, weekly, in the tip jar gives you clout that the other mere mortals in life haven’t got…… gumption, guts & the right to entitlement. If they think you’re somebody then by golly! they feel like somebody too!

Isn’t that what celebrity is? The illusion of something so great, so untouchable that when you are graced with its presence you can’t help but want to emit that same “Je ne sais quoi” so others will feel the same way about you? Whether notable on the concert stage, a theatrical luminary or simply being yourself in your living room with your family at Christmas; one person always takes the floor, stands forever in the spot light and seems to do something everyone else cannot. And even if we don’t know what it is - we want it.

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