What’s important for teens: morale or fame?
In this millennium, where people face the want to be famous everywhere they look, morals kind of lose their importance with the teenagers.
It could be because of popular fictional TV shows that showcase fame-oriented content of popular TV shows or the opportunity to post online videos and status updates for everyone to create the perfect storm: a desire for fame.
Nowadays it’s easy to see the phenomenal success of teenagers like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. Teens are now focused on popularity and status. Seeing a large audience give so much attention to someone, teens crave all of it too. It is then that the inexperience to think that fame comes easily creeps in.
In the 21st century, TV content socializes with teens a lot more than before. Even though teens today have a variety of choices, they still watch television where a large number of the messages conveyed is that young people achieving great success, it’s only natural for anyone to start wanting this for themselves.
What teens fail to forget is that preparing yourself for the hard work, effort and persistence is utmost necessary. One should keep in mind that success comes only after trying.
Though the teens aren’t entirely to blame here, deep down we all want to be famous, or a little attention. That may be why now, more than ever, teens are on many other social networking sites and have been adding thousands of strangers to raise their friend count, picture comments, and popularity.
For years, people all over the world have been going to great lengths to achieve those fifteen minutes of fame. We all see it every day; people shamelessly putting themselves all over for a few hundred measly comments, people creating ridiculous stories to get in the spotlight, and even exploiting their family to be laughed at throughout cyberspace. You may notice that the internet has become the fastest way to get famous for a brief time.
But living solely for others’ validation is, as we know, a dangerous path. When your self-esteem depends on how much the world loves you, or retweets, likes, views your posts, you’re at its mercy. And once the attention fades, you’ll be left feeling empty. And if there’s no attention at all, you’ll feel like a complete failure. Probably the desire to be famous is connected to unhappiness, and it is this unhappiness does not allow us to focus on our morals or values.
So fame is definitely very important for a teenager and we need to change this, and soon. The downfalls of eventually becoming a superstar are as many. You wouldn’t be able to go to a beach without the paparazzi taking pictures of you, to the mall without getting mobbed by aggressive strangers with cell phones, if you went outside without makeup you’d be ripped apart in the press, and if you made a totally human mistake you’d probably be put on trial. It’ll then that you’ll realize that things were so much easier without all the extra scrutiny and extra attention.
The upsides to fame might be pretty alluring—the couture outfits, dating hot hunks, VIP treatment, and most importantly: the money. But for now we should take our regular life and be content with what god has blessed you.
