Quote from: kotajikikox on Today at 09:31:58 PM

Quote from: bubilas on Today at 08:02:38 AM

It's just that most of us are subject to the stereotype that rich or famous people are always smart people.
But in reality, artists, singers, athletes, or movie stars are often just people who can do one skill well, but their horizons are even smaller than the average person.

Honestly a lot of rich people just got lucky too. I am more talking about the ones who got rich from being a celebrity. A lot of them don’t even have actual talent to begin with. It’s often a running advice in the show business that fame is not forever so you really should be wise with the money you receive and don’t spend it on lavish lifestyle just for it to disappear when you need it the most.

I agree that many individuals are remembered today by their cameras and the media and not by their extra ordinary talents that they have developed over the years. It is something that people do not consider many times that a fortune, of sorts, comes with ratings but the fortune, of sorts, does not come with its guidelines, in other words. You see, we have to live in an era when the attention can bring instant money but even we understand that attention shifts very quickly to other faces.

I do not entirely fault them because the system does develop such trends. We can however take a lesson out of that, just because something can come through at a fast pace, it does not mean it will be here to stay. Of course, it is not all about making the money but about surviving after being drawn into the spotlight. We the audience should not be laid into the web of what is described to sound glamorous on the surface.