Before I get into this, please be aware that I don’t fail to realize that a lot of people are just having fun with this… But as with everything, some others take it to ridiculous extremes and I want to address it.

  Now, since I’ve joined the wonderful and often creepy world of internet blogging, I’ve had the chance to read interesting articles and thoughts, been bombarded by sometimes funny and other times overused and annoying gifs, read comic strips of all sorts, seen memes come and go in a matter of mere weeks… Overall the experience is positive, or I wouldn’t have a blog of my own. However, one thing makes me roll my eyes every time; celebrity worship.

  I hate this attitude where people seem to go “No one I know compares to this celebrity.” I’m tired of seeing random photos of celebrities posted with a sentence going somewhat like “I blame him/her/them for my high expectations on men/women/people.”

  Are you so sure that no one you know in your life really compares to this person you don’t even know personally? Really? In that case, maybe you need to make new friends. I only hang around people I can stand, where I’ll be glad of the time I spent with them, but maybe that’s just me. These actors, models, athletes or whatever else might be great people, or they might not. We don’t know. We don’t know them. An interview showing them at their best in tailor-made suits or dresses and huge smiles on their faces will not tell you who they are. What’s more, in many cases if they weren’t celebrities, you wouldn’t look at them twice. I’m not saying that for all of them, but be honest with yourself here. Especially in the case of male celebrities, some of them will have their weird looks and personal quirks praised and desired only because they portray a well-liked character on T.V or something along those lines. In the case of female celebrities, they spend a lot of time under make-up and being lit just the right way. If many of these fans had met these people before they were celebrities, I am not so sure they would have really appreciated them the way they claim to right now. And sure, many of them DO look quite good, but I see good-looking people on the street every single day!

  I personally think that Christina Hendricks is the most beautiful woman on television right now. I won’t blame her for my ‘high expectations on women’ though. The things I prefer are still there with or without her in this world, thank you very much. I won’t spend much time fantasizing about her either, I prefer to fantasize about the women I’m interested in actually going after. I think James Marsters was the coolest vampire ever when he portrayed Spike, but I have no idea who this guy is in his day to day life, nor will I jump to the conclusion that he’s so much better than any of my friends. I personally find it much more fun and satisfying to be amazed by the people who are actually around me. Because these celebrities, we only see them at their best, we don’t see them all the time, when their publicists aren’t planning every single step they take. My friends, they’re my personal celebrities if you will, there’s something I admire in each of them. And more importantly, I know they’re not perfect and nor am I, and I’m perfectly fine with that.

  I’m not saying you should stop being fans. I have my favorite actors, writers, showrunners, artists, etc. It’s okay for people to post things about who they think is good-looking, cool, to be admired for a job they did, all those things. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t let these things affect your opinion of the people around you to the point where you think no one you know or will ever meet can compare to these complete strangers.