A Teenagers Take On Fame

Hands up if you’ve ever wanted to be famous. *Looks to see a lot of hands*

Keep your hands up if you’ve actually achieved how famous you want to be. Not wanted. Want. *Sees some of the hands lower down*

Okay, now just answer this simple question:

Fame? What does fame even mean to you?

* I’m sure all your answers are correct but I’m going to be writing on teenagers and their perspective on fame.*

P.S. I do not speak for every teenager in the world because every one’s different and unique and themselves. So I’m going to generalize some things that teenagers go through while trying to achieve “fame”, if at all they want to achieve it.

To most teenagers it means anything right from the number of followers on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, their blog (Yes, I do this as well) and a ton of million other sites to the number of friends on Facebook to the number of likes on their YouTube videos to how “popular” they are in their schools or even worldwide..

I get a boost of self-confidence when someone praises my work or I gain a new follower on my blog they like what I write is the same feeling of self-confidence that someone else gains when they see a new follower on Twitter or a new like on a selfie. We all are susceptible to this because we are after all humans as well (even though we’re highly misunderstood and are never treated our age) and we crave the attention whether it’s consciously or not.

For example, when I write a poem or a story or a song I like showing them to people and getting their reaction or their comments to it because somewhere I need to be reassured of the fact that what I write isn’t always bull. (However, 70% of the time is. No, wait.. Make that 90%..)

Fame quite simply put doesn’t define you but if you let it, it’ll consume you and make you do things you’d never imagined yourself doing ever. (These aren’t always good things). And this thirst starts from the time we’re teenagers. We run after the impossible, wanting that which always seems out of reach like become one of those “famous” YouTubers or those teen celebs who seem like they’re living the life. It’s like one of those things you can addicted to once you’ve got a taste of it.

The point of this post however isn’t to talk about fame or how it alters a person drastically but about how as a teenager fame means so much more than anything in our life. We’re ready to give up almost everything to achieve the idea of fame. I know how I used to dream about how famous I was going to get when I was a kid.. And somehow instead of fading into daydreams it just intensifies as we grow into teenagers. We become more determined to receive the fame we deserve and obstinate to not see where the line should be drawn. Ahem Ahem.. Just think about all those current celebrities who became famous at a really young age..

As teenagers we become more opinionated and everyone around us just seems to be pressuring us and telling us what not to do. They’re like the chains trying to tie us to the ground or so we think. And the way out of this? Get famous and then prove them wrong. Emerge victorious. Let everyone remember you for centuries. Become an immortal in their eyes. You get the idea. *No the idea is NOT to start singing Fall Out Boy.*

Somewhere along the line, fame becomes the great escape and a teen is but a small fish trying to swim against a current that’s too strong. But teenagers are strong willed and minded souls and they figure their lives out just fine…. Mostly.. (Says the person who doesn’t have her life in order at all)

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