How many sportspersons have dated movie stars! How many movie stars have married industrialists! How many industrialists have family alliances with politicians!
Sachin Tendulkar is nominated to the Parliament, his century is felicitated by the Ambanis, and his family wedding will be attended by the Bachhans. When Sharukh Khan is stopped at the US airport, when he has a brawl at the cricket stadium, when he plays loud music on his birthday - they're all headlines. Don’t get me started about Aishwarya Rai’s motherhood or Manisha Koirala’s bibulous appearance. I’m not talking just about the greats here. Our celebrityhood obsession pervades the entire spectrum - from Rahul Gandhi to Rahul Sharma, from Anil Ambani to Anil Kapoor, from Pranab Mukherjee to Rani Mukherjee. How did all of this start? Why are we so obsessed with celebrities?
When the erstwhile East India Company first explored conquering India, they had sent a noted statesman to qualify the exploration. The statesman wrote back to the British Parliament saying he travelled across the length and breadth of the nation and only found high moral people of great caliber, and that if the British need to have any opportunity to make inroads, they first have to hit our self esteem. And thence was created the strategy that they will make anything foreign sound superior to the Indians, including the English language. Voila, they managed to do that so successfully that even after more than half a century of their exit, we are still obsessed with anything that is not our own. Nothing specific about Indians here, this is just natural human behaviour. Do celebrities personify that very same behaviour in us?
We want to be a hero, and our movie stars epitomize that. We want to knock any opponent out, and our sports persons typify that. We want to be able to make money, and our industrialists lead the way. We want to rule the world, and our politicians do that so well. Why wouldn’t we be obsessed with them? Distance does lend enchantment, whatever it be on the other side. Doesn’t necessarily have to be a movie star who attracts us, it can even be our neighbour. Anyone other than our spouse. Doesn’t necessarily have to be an industrialist, even our uncle who buys an expensive car can do the job. Anyone other than our father. It just takes a little bit of introspection to find out that if we believe in ourselves, if we are motivated from within, if we stand for what we’re, no force in this world can stop us from becoming what we want to.
All I want to say is, keep growing yourself, be attracted to yourself, fall in love with yourself, this world will follow you. You're the master of your own destiny. You're as as unique, as special, and as great as everyone else is. Stop looking at this world to find yourself, you’re what you’re. Look into yourself, and you never will have to look outside.
All I want to say is, keep growing yourself, be attracted to yourself, fall in love with yourself, this world will follow you. You're the master of your own destiny. You're as as unique, as special, and as great as everyone else is. Stop looking at this world to find yourself, you’re what you’re. Look into yourself, and you never will have to look outside.
"Look into yourself, and you never will have to look outside" - This one is worth taking a print out and putting it up where we'll see always. Or better yet, we could just take it and store it in the part of the brain which is most actively accessed :-)
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