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Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
– Emily Dickinson
Everything is possible nowadays. We hear about a lot of people that have became stars over night. So, it is possible to be famous at least for 15 minutes in your lifetime.
It's Christmas time and apparently what every little boy and girl in Britain would like most of all is to be famous.
Being a celebrity has topped a list of what children under 10 believe to be the "very best thing in the world" in a survey carried out for National KidsDay.
Those who believe we live in an increasingly shallow culture will not be surprised to learn that at numbers two and three in the poll of 2,500 children were "good looks" and "being rich".
Being "famous" or a "star" are titles that are given by the nature of the definitions as being those sort of things. You could be a "star" or "famous" right around where you live. Doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be on some huge scale such as being recognized nationally. It could just mean pleasing one person because of what you did with your performance that you really loved in order to be "famous" or a "star".
If you really love what you do and aren't concerned about the fame that you will receive, but instead are more concerned that what you do really helps someone else to enjoy their life a little more, then that may be all it takes to make you a "famous" or a "star".
I'm not "famous" on any sort of large level. But, I am well known around where I am in this pretty large municipality. I don't really care about being famous, I just like to enrich peoples lives with what I can do to entertain them! And by creating this blog the main idea is to bring all those people, idea, blogs, youtube videos, my friends your friends, that are special and famous for us.
To achieve distinction is not the same as becoming famous. A great number of today's celebrities - the people who grace the pages of Gossip magazines, for instance - have a sort of temporary fame but no distinction whatsoever. They bear the status of glorified nobodies. It was Andy Warhol, who predicted their rise in the modern era. "In the future," he said, "everybody will be famous for 15 minutes." That was a good line, though it now seems certain that 15 minutes was too long for some people.
