Our Love/Hate For Female Celebrity Pictures

By Jeremy Carden

Female celebrity pictures, when looking at them most of us can have the most interesting responses. Standard responses can vary from, 'Oh look how lovely her dress is, I wonder who the designer is' to 'Oh my God she has gotten so much work done and you can't tell me those are real'.

It seems we use these so-called 'Icons' as a strange mix, as a source of information on, for lack of a better term, the latest fashions and all the details this entails; and as a source of criticism that reassures us that the subjects of these pictures are human beings like us.

If they are known and remembered, then it is also possible for us to to be. One could say it is a bizarre sort of 'God complex' for the masses struggling to find purpose and meaning in their lives. A strange, superficial way to try fill the emptiness.

This sort of thinking can the a useful tool in the so-called 'pursuit of happiness' in respect to using it as a reflection of our own shortcomings and thus knowing what actions we can take in order to improve our own lives. This will take much out of us a and does take courage since it requires much self-criticism because without self-criticism there cannot be any self improvement.

If all we can do is criticize the subject in the picture, then in truth we are saying, 'Look at this flawed human being, who has problems and experienced obstacles just like me and was still able to transcend these obstacles and overcome them. Now, what exactly does this say about me?'

If the whole is only as good as sum of all it's parts then, as it relates to a society, each individual should practise much self-criticism in order to find ways to improve themselves and thus perhaps their society. This surely would be a better state of mind than simply relying on others, for example in authority to do all the work for you.

There are two paths each of us can follow in relation to the subject at hand. We can follow the lives of the celebrity in the pictures in anticipation of their downfall. 'Show we common fame and I will show you nothing more false and foolish' as F. Scott Fitzgerald said. This path is, of course the easy way out, the 'house built on sand' so to speak and thus will be of no use to us in the long run because of the total lack of effort but in to it from ourselves will derive us no benefit whatsoever.

The other path requires much more effort. It requires using the achievements and life of the celebrity in the picture as a personal challenge to recognise that you as a human being have your own talents and if you are to improve your life and fulfill your destiny you must find a way to bring these talents into your 'reality' in some sort of useful and productive way. This should be done not only for your own good as an individual but also for the good of the society that you live and exist in. - 30452

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