Celebrity

few days back this post here caught me thinking into it, somehow.

Now after this I go back and check the theoretical meaning of Celebrity and it says "Famous person". I, in turn get more curious, go back and look for the theoretical meaning of famous and that directly says first-rate or excellent. Anything that's excellent is viewed as a benchmark, so why not with humans. When a person is so well known to the world, we get curious about them, we look for news about them, read about them and try to look up for good things from what they do. Its not now, yesterday or day before that we are into this logic. It just goes with the time starting right after this word was invented.

Taking a simple example, every kid in each family picks up something from parents/relatives. So looking upto someone as a matter of inspiration is something genetic. Now, not everything that a person expects can be imbibed from within the family and that's where the outside world enters one's life. After all, Popularity is a matter of how many people know a person and how much they talk about him/her! Its a very human tendency to observe and follow what a famous personality does. And thereby the word role model!

Agreed imitation is a one whole big thing to be ignored. Being oneself is important. And for the wise that makes what is called life - Be oneself and try to pick up the good things as you move on with time and life. So celebrities are probably one of the sources from where things "could be" picked up.

Yes. there should be a line drawn to everything and so is to this too.. That is why, I mentioned 'wise' here. And the point "we look for news about them" - note, not gossips! Because, wise men might criticize, but they do not intend to pick a fight with you. Its just about the freedom of speech. Anyone can talk out or comment what he/she feels.. If a celebrity is gonna take it too personal, then there is an little extra mile that needs to be travelled beyond this pessimistic line for you to get optimistic and define things to yourself. But it, end of the day, is upto you, if being a celebrity you want to care about that or not!

Going an extra line about it, being in limelight also means being open to the world, open to the fact that a lot of people can know/see/talk about you. there definitely is a better word to describe this whole fact than saying 'Public Property'. Think that the person who commented so probably did not have a good English :P

Above all, nobody can stop you from being your'self' and so you still can live life in your own terms. Spread your wings and fly more heights! Have fun :)

Democracy!

The death of YSR did not give me any little peace, I just though wish he got some.
A complete weird (should I say incapable?) management that I work for, that could not predict things in advance, after we entered office on Thursday, the 3rd of Sep '09 calls for an urgent meeting something like what happens in the parliament and says, people who think its "unsafe" to stay at office, please feel free to leave. You may probably work from home! Note the word probably here. And in no-time shoots out an email, following the death of the honorable Chief Minister we are declaring it as a holiday today.
Everybody is happy, most of them decide to leave office. I clearly see no point. Given that it was Ganesh Visarjan on the same day and the CM missing story since the previous morning, how could the management that runs business since years with the so called eminent people in the world be so inefficient that they had to wait for the death news to utter this 'P' word (I mean the 'probably' point above)! So much of inconvenience people would have been saved from! And around the time when no one even cares to check their mails, there was yet another mail saying that continuing whatsoever blah-blah, we have holiday tomorrow, Friday, the 4th of September and we would be working compensatory on some Saturday for this. And if this going to be the Saturday of the long weekend, for which I have my tickets already booked, then I do not bother if they are called the highly disordered people.

Now this instance early in the morning was a lot more to trigger my anger sense and then adds to it the house arrest ceremony that went on for 2 full days. Yeah Agreed! someone who is holding a high position, supposed to be ruling the state, all due respect given for him, his done's and not-done's to the country. May God bless him to rest in peace!
but whats with this whole drama of shops/offices/name-it its all closed, is this the way of mourning for someone!? Is this the way we must show our gratitude/respect for the lost soul!? Or doing all this would bring back the dead, alive!? I fail to understand what the heck is wrong with this whole system. Is it just that people all panic for no reason? is it that we are giving away our routines as a condolence for the dead? Or simply the educated whole lot is scared of the behavior that the illiterate yet called the workers/fans/enthusiasts of the party/YSR? Is it simply that the common people find no other reason to just take a day or two off and sit at home!?
After all this I must vote, I say its democracy and the whole bunch of useless vocabulary to define this single word and I have no damn freedom, being forced to not even get out of the house and do what I may wish to!
What do I have man, to do with his funeral. After all a person like me, who do not even belong to this state, Is it that I have sinned so much living in this city just for the past insane 4 months that I have to go through it. My grandfather passed away just the day before and I was all here, continuing my routines except for the few hours after I got the news, working for this clueless organization and thereby the nation, paying this huge bunch of my salary in the name of taxes for the wellness of this whole country. What irks me is that I do not connect to this guy even an ounce, whats the need that I have to spare my day and night and yet called as a citizen of this most non-progressive country!? So far, in my career, I have seen close to 10 fatal deaths and the company asks to observe silence, if not anything, for a minute or two and we close it there! So he is the CM and why the country had to go on a 2 day long mourning!
Long live the opportunists that my money passes through, before it reaches the Government, and the Government that fails to take care of a simple bit of this and even cares to educate such a crowd, if it really exists, that the so-called public is afraid of at circumstances like these, the sense of humanity or awareness or anything else that is required to handle things like these. Or change, may be a single man who usually is behind all this inducing violence and stuff!

The other annoying part was the weekends coupled up, I call up every damn travels to find out if they would operate buses out of the city, and I right royally hear, we are 'mourning' tonight. Now I ask you, did you sit at home all night and kept mourning for the departed soul!
This still extends and reaches the TV channels. Curse those who have got satellite connections, sit at home and happily watch TV, a minimum time pass. The cable TV operators also do nothing other than what is called 'mourning'! But spare the news channels, Way to go! So this plainly means I watch TV and its only his LIVE relay of cremation and other related things and then they call it 'mourning' for 2 days! B-U-L-L $-*-*-*!
The death of 140+ people, another great news for the media to make all the hue and cry and the hype that they support all this madness! Yet another money making stunt for them!

All this is not new for us for that matter! I have been in Bangalore during Rajkumar's death and I completely remember how the whole city went deserted again the long weekend glory! Given that both of these occurred naturally, where are we heading. We would never change! The Change, we need! Get me a US visa, let me fly and get out of all this madness once for all. I just hope situations are better there at stances like these! I have nothing more to lend for this country. Enough is enough!

After all this, adding to my annoyance, the 93110 score in the cube crash, just 60 more points to go and I was all crashed up! What a way to celebrate my weekend! :D

Jai-Hind!