Aap koi celebrity ho jo aapka kaam jaldi ho jaega? (Are you a celebrity to get your job done faster?)

    This is a statement I recently heard while visiting a bank in my city. It simply put a question into my head – what is the value of a common man? The moment you wake-up and pull out a newspaper to read what do you find in it? What do you see on social-media and television? What are we constantly being told? Whom are we all following? It is only some or the other person who has earned a celebrity status. Till you are a celebrity, you are a nobody. Eat like some famous actor, work-out to get a figure like this model, sleep like some celebrity guru tells you. Every now and then, you are only being told what all you should do that some or the other celebrity does.

     My only question to everyone who propagates this celebrity culture is – Why can’t a common person be left like a common person? Is being a common person worthless? Why is it that only celebrities are given so much of priority, consideration and privilege at every point? I am sure people work really hard to get a celebrity stature, however, the common people are the ones who struggle every day to make both ends meet. Then why is this common person reminded about what all he is missing in his life which is being done by a celebrity including kids? Why create so much of pressure on what all the common people don’t have?

    When I read newspapers or scroll through the social media, I feel really sad that there is less of information which is really useful and more highlights of what celebrities are doing. I am constantly looking only at the life of a class of people who can afford everything which looks like the best and that which is perfect. A local product that I purchase is nothing because only something used by a famous person has brand value hence is acceptable. I have even heard people being ashamed of not having an i-phone since it gives a better social status. So even a phone is not a phone till it’s an i-phone.

   So the point I am trying to make here is it necessary that only a celebrity life needs this much importance? It is not ok to have a simple, middle-class life? Why is that till you reach a certain class you are constantly mocked or looked down upon about as a cattle class or a BPL (Below poverty line?) Why are extra benefits only for the affluent when even the common people pay their taxes? Why is social acceptance easier and unbiased only for celebrities?

     JUST WRITTEN BY A COMMON PERSON FOR EVERYONE TO THINK……..