Our big obsession by Alicia Avery

Are we too obsessed with celebrities? They are just normal people who need attention. Many children want to look like them but are we really obsessed? Whenever I hear today's music, I figured that they only talk about drugs, sex or cars. Now, I know that not everyone likes Celine Dion but she is one of the artists who always has a deep meaning in her songs. So, are we too obsessed with all this celebrity thing?

I always ask myself why people care about things like beauty, popularity and if you are thin or not. I have better things to do such as doing my work in school and pursuing my dream of becoming a singer. I want to become a singer simply because I really enjoy singing and I want to do what I love everyday. Not because of fame. Why is our society obsessed with celebrities? My opinion is that people wish they had the "celebrity life", a life where they can have anything they could ever want, popularity throughout the globe and the most expensive things money can buy.

Teenagers are being affected even though they don't know it. I've heard many girls saying that they are too fat and wish they were skinny like Paris Hilton and others who have lost a lot of weight and who are now really slim. Teens all over the world are influenced by actors, singers and models. They want to dress, talk and act like them even though they don't admit it. Some would be ready to do anything to look like their favorite celebrity including plastic surgery. When you get plastic surgery, there's about 85% chance of you regretting to have done it.

One thing that really bothers me is this magazine called star. It only shows stories about celebrities! They never show or write the lives of everyday people and the problems they go through. It is as if celebrities were the only ones to have hard lives. To this magazine, they think that fashion and how you look is the most important thing. They judge artists on how they dressed, they comment on their faces and compare their dress to another
by saying mean things about it. They comment on non-important things of everyday life but we still read this magazine and love it. We give ourselves permission to judge people we don't even know and that we have never even spoken to.

My answer is yes, we are too obsessed about celebrities, people who care only about themselves and will never do anything to help the people in need and less fortunate. Of course, there are some exceptions such as Angelina Jolie who does contribute her time to help the people in need around the world. So, instead of trying to know more about celebrities` lives, spend your time in your community to make our world a better place. Instead of caring about them, be a celebrity in your own community.