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I enjoy watching the Wimbledon Tennis
championships, the football finals and cricket test matches and athletics. The
razzmatazz, the carnival and endless commentaries and opinion. Of course the
players are very skilful and some cases very well paid indeed. Then there is
adoration they get from fans and the fans get a thrill and kind of live vicariously through their celebrity’s fame and dream of the day when they too will be a celebrity.
Of course there is the constant training, the injuries, the hype and to live up
to one’s own publicity and believe it.
The down side is one’s private life as a celebrity
and one’s role model role duties and the constant demand from public expectations has
its possible downside as well as an ego feeder. The downside when retirement looms, perhaps withdrawal symptoms or one
goes to a coach, manager or commentator, or a good hobby and possibly the other
scenario as a sad forgotten player.
Then there is the monk recluse, the robe, the
begging bowl and simplicity and maybe some monks or ascetics run away from a
celebrity world because they couldn't face society because of some trauma.
There are many reasons, scenarios in both celebrity and ascetic
sides of the coin.
For sure the celebrity has a future of money,
property and relationships of this world and may not care what happens in an
after life. The monk maybe sure about an after life but is it assured as it
seems, one has to reach that experience of assurity by inner feelings and not
foolhardiness or self denial.
Common to both is the life span and ageing
process, the celebrity perhaps living on fame, memories and wealth, the monks
on ever emptying the importance of the celebrity. Death of the body is perhaps what they have
in common and the mind set the difference.
SHACK
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