The Fishbowl

Celebrity gossip is one of the most common things that spin out of control over a picture or a sighting.  Our imaginations can lead us on so many scenarios just by one thought or idea.  I believe that celebrities should be left alone.  Whether we want to hear it or not, the celebrities did not put themselves in the fishbowl, we did.  We put them on a pedestal and make their stories so much more significant than the average Joe.  If a celebrity sneezes, we immediately hear about it and every detail.  “I saw it coming from a distance.  Jennifer Aniston squint her eyes and drew her head back when all of a sudden… she sneezed.  She then reached into her purse and pulled out a tissue and blotted her nose five times.”  I know this is a little over exaggerated, but in all reality the things that are reported are everyday happenstances for most of us.  Michael Douglas was diagnosed with cancer some time ago now.  He was wanted for interviews with many television stations and was talked about constantly for a while.  He was in magazines, on talk shows, and of course in the news.  They followed his treatment and talked to his wife about their suffering.  In working in a salon, most of the gossip surprisingly, was about celebrities.  While Michael Douglas is on television speaking of how his treatments are going, my cousin is in the clinic getting Chemo Therapy for his cancer.  We are a world, absorbed in everyone else’s life,  putting others in a fishbowl so that we can be entertained. 

Michael Douglas