GOLDEN GLOBE
There's something about celebrities. Famous people.
I was watching the Golden Globe, and as I watched the seats fill up with those beautiful people we all envy, admire and identify, I started to wonder how they got there.
These people, they're on the top of the world. I think back to history lessons of giant gatherings of princes and princesses, and flocks of peasent crowds there solely to admire the figures. Then I think about how much we have attempted to keep this tradition.
Imagine being one of those celebrities, on top, everyone knows your name. You live in a castle and feast on a silver apple that's price could afford to feed a family for a lifetime. Now picture George Washington, William Shakespear, and Nero.
There are historical figures that we all know, then there are celebrities that we all know. Back in the middleages, there was a King George the 2nd, and I'll be damned if you can tell me more about him than the peasents of the day could. George the 2nd was just as popular as Morgan Freeman is today.
Now, people could give a damn about the influences and the web George could have made. He was on the top, and even he was forgotten.
I, do not want to be forgotten.
I do not want to be famous.
I want to be historical.
Is that too much to ask for?
Who will your great great grandchild, who undoubetdly will not even know your name, let alone what you did to make sure of their existance(be it purposeful or not), be learning about?
Maybe John Lennon, John F. Kennedy, or John Dillinger.
Will they even care? Can you say that you would care?
It's so easy to become famous. Get a gun, shoot someone.
It's a life's challenge to become historical though. Maybe I should try.
I was watching the Golden Globe, and as I watched the seats fill up with those beautiful people we all envy, admire and identify, I started to wonder how they got there.
These people, they're on the top of the world. I think back to history lessons of giant gatherings of princes and princesses, and flocks of peasent crowds there solely to admire the figures. Then I think about how much we have attempted to keep this tradition.
Imagine being one of those celebrities, on top, everyone knows your name. You live in a castle and feast on a silver apple that's price could afford to feed a family for a lifetime. Now picture George Washington, William Shakespear, and Nero.
There are historical figures that we all know, then there are celebrities that we all know. Back in the middleages, there was a King George the 2nd, and I'll be damned if you can tell me more about him than the peasents of the day could. George the 2nd was just as popular as Morgan Freeman is today.
Now, people could give a damn about the influences and the web George could have made. He was on the top, and even he was forgotten.
I, do not want to be forgotten.
I do not want to be famous.
I want to be historical.
Is that too much to ask for?
Who will your great great grandchild, who undoubetdly will not even know your name, let alone what you did to make sure of their existance(be it purposeful or not), be learning about?
Maybe John Lennon, John F. Kennedy, or John Dillinger.
Will they even care? Can you say that you would care?
It's so easy to become famous. Get a gun, shoot someone.
It's a life's challenge to become historical though. Maybe I should try.