You see it all the time, people go to extreme lengths to look like their favorite celebrities. To be the same as their favorite celebrities. If i could only look the way she did on that magazine cover or in that movie. People want to be the same as people who are respected. People who have fans and are seen as icons. We destroy our bodies and ourselves trying to be what we are not. We wanna look, walk, talk, act, dress, feel, and be seen the same as these people. What people don't realize is no matter how hard you try you will always be you never them. We can change the way we look and act but you can't change your genetics or where you grew up or who you grew up with or just jump from poor to rich because you wanna be a celebrity.
We need to stop and look at our society. We need to understand that celebrities don't even look like that. Computer graphics, spray on tans, plastic surgeries, and air brushing. People don't actually look the way they do on magazine covers. We mutilate our bodies, starve ourselves, lose touch with our friends because they don't represent the look your going for or they don't respect your idiocy of trying to be4 someone you are not. People need to learn to love themselves, love the people around them. Normal, conform to the new age, what is normal,why should i dress and act like everyone else. Where is the individuality, why am i considered a skid just for having coloured hair and not being the friendliest. Is it because that's not what you consider to be normal, not what you approve of. I don't do drugs, party, or screw yet because you don't approve of me that makes me a skid.
People destroy themselves to be like celebrities, celebrities destroy themselves to be the way you expect them to be. Why can't we be proud to come in all different shapes, sizes, colours, and styles. I'm proud to be an individual, I won't conform to your or anyone
else's standards. My name is Brandy and that who I am, I'm not some Brittany Spears wanna be, I am who I wanna be and I'm proud of it. I have an attitude that resembles some of my favorite celebrities, it was like that for a long time. Does not mean I'm gonna do everything i can to be as much like them as possible. To many people today want it all, they wanna be rich, have nice cars, big houses, etc. This is one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite celebrities. "When all your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."-Marilyn Manson. Which means when you have it all what is left for your imagination. The reason Marilyn Manson is one of my favorite celebrities is not because i want to be him its because he states his opinions no matter what everyone else says. He does not want to be like everyone else or have anyone the same as he is, he is proud to be an individual.
"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."-Marilyn Manson. I look up to people because of their attitudes, opinions, and actions, what they are willing to do and how determined they are to stand up for what they believe. Money can have a positive effect on helping you support what you believe, but its what you believe and your determination that inspires me. Big houses, fast cars, lots of money really can't buy happiness. The world today focuses to much on material possessions.
I understand the desire to be like someone else. Have their live, escape from your own. Besides the grass is always better on the other side right?... wrong, its the same from that side, you look back over and from the angle you are standing at the grass looks thicker. The angle you stand at hides all the brown patches, life is gonna be tough no matter what side you are on. Every ones life is difficult in some way, just because someone did not go threw the exact same thing as you does not mean their life was not tough. You can't compare the bad things that happened to you to the bad things that happened to someone else. You don't know how they feel, or felt.
You can;t destroy yourself, hide yourself, or remove who you are. You can put on a mask all you want but that is only temporary. Wearing a mask does not mean those "cool kids" are really your friends, they are friends with your mask and your mask alone. Don't destroy yourself trying to be someone who you can't be. Be yourself and find people who love you, support you, and respect you for who you TRULY are.