Popularity brings us nothing in the real world. Celebrities, for example, are constantly being stalked by others who are always nosing about in order to find out secrets about the famous person. Also, popular students in school are often worse students because they focus too much on the image that they project toward everyone else. In the long run, popularity is the downfall of those who know it through personal experience. When we begin to care more about what others think of us just to hold onto popularity, we are no longer individuals, but become false idols for those who worship the ground we walk on. We become liars, and become the lie itself.
Popularity changes people. It is not rare for someone who is not a part of the "cool" crowd to somehow find a way into the inner ciricle of the popular and join the ranks of those who believe they are the best. Then, the friends of that person are left for the new friends that everyone knows and envies. However, we all know that not one person is worth more than another. Therefore, those friends that were left behind feel betrayed, hurt, and often angry. Those poor souls left behind by those who join the "cool" people then realize through first-hand experience how much popularity can transform us. It seems that when all eyes are upon us, our true colors are revealed for all to see, and it is not often pretty. Popularity can make the sweetest, kindest, most loving "nobody" into a cruel, heartless, bestial fool who believes that he or she is God's gift to humanity. Popularity, it may seem, dammages our minds and waprs our hearts, creating self-centered, narcissistic creatures. Popularity also makes us the center of attention in our worst moments.
Whenever a celebrity is arrested for anything, the nation begins to buzz about it. It happens everyday. A famous singer is caught with drugs and the music industry goes haywire. A movie star is caught driving drunk and movie critics and patrons begin to gossip. Imagine how the world would be if everytime the average Joe commits a crime it became national news. The thorn of the rose called popularity does not end atcrimes, either. When a celebrity dies, it seems that everyone has to know what the corpse looks like, what the cause of death was, all of the details... People have been known to attened funerals for these famous corpses and photograph the cadaver, posting the images on the internet for all to see. The popular have little or no privacy. I, for one, believe that the idea of not being able to go out to diner without having people stare at me and question me about things is simply ludicrous. It is for these reasons I believe that we should keep ourselv3s out of the spotlight of society.
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