Fame vs Freedom

In this century, 

you can do any stupid things

that look bizarre in the society's eyes

and be famous instantly!

It just takes less than 1 hour to be famous.

But you get famous instantly,

you'll be forgotten instantly.

Thus, 

we all can observe a constant chain of strange, silly videos on the net,

sometimes they're made by the same people, 

because they want to stay famous.

There're many categories of instafamous people.

1. You're hella successful and people are genuinely inspired by you.

2. You're that celebrity who does well in your career.

3. There're so many gossips and rumors that you're associated with and people just wanna know more about your life.

4. You try so hard to gain followers by doing insane stuff.

There's nothing wrong about being famous,

but it's scary to know that a person's life goal is to have this certain number of instagram followers,

as if the number of followers determines how cool she is, or how great she is.

Well, if you're talking about e-commerce and instagram business account,

it's fine. More followers = more potential customers.

But a personal account....and risking your dignity to let the world know your existence,

that's insane!

But fame does have a lot of benefits,

you'll be sponsored from head to toe,

you can get discounts everywhere you go,

but you just have to promote others' business even though

you somehow need to lie about your reviews because 

money comes first...

Okay that's the issue of advertising but

really, you'll get hell lots of benefits.

But one thing that I personally 

don't wanna sacrifice,

whenever I started thinking about 

being 'instafamous' so I will get to receive stuff for free 

and just review them and will get the money out of it,

I will surely think about the freedom.

In the world where everyone wants to know

about everyone's business,

I just wanna stay in my bubble,

socialize when I need to but not socializing for a living.

I know that celebrities, 

they never care about what others think about them anymore

because they've had enough of them,

but whether you like it or not,

there's a small voice inside your head that makes you care.

You will care about people judgment,

you don't like it when people hate you

because all humans want to hear is a compliment.

My point is,

even with 15 readers I sometimes feel like my life is being judged,

but my blog is a personal space, that I think if people

genuinely read it because they really wanna know what's going on

with my life, but yeah I'm still a bit paranoid about it.

Imagine having to deal with 5 million followers,

being followed by paparazzi and 

at that point in life,

one is gonna wonder,

what do others feel like to have freedom in their lives?

I watched a lot of interviews and 

most of them are saying that they miss their 

alone time with their friends and family,

the moments before they became whom they are today,

but let's face it,

they've been involved in this life,

they made the informed decision about the price of being famous,

so, there's no turning back.

All I want to say is,

if you wanna be famous,

be famous for the right reason.

Because you don't only own up to your misbehaviors,

you also have to own up to all the embarrassment that

everyone who knows you feel when you get famous for a misleading reason.

#selfreminder