Celebrities are often praised sky high for their qualities, right? No complaints whatsoever about them as such. At times, however, i do feel that such praise sounds a little false, rather a P.R. job!?!
Can I give an example or two? Well, I have a high regard for Amitabh Bacchan's punctuality. Undoubtedly, unlike many others enjoying celebrity-dom, he does not prove it by reaching late. Great! Good! But it is so easy for him to be on time, right? He does not need to take care of any household duties or of a senior patient at home. There are multiple minions taking care of all such extremely tough but apparently mundane duties and jobs.
Does he, like a woman homemaker, need to look after cooking, cleaning, buying milk, veggies, groceries? Does he need to look after the entire household, dusting, washing, mopping? Does he need to stand in bus queues, hop on to buses filled to capacities, lurching like mad while you hold on to the overhead bar for the sake of dear life?
Does he really have to worry about the traffic jam, except, may be, once in a lifetime? All his small to big chores are taken care of proxy by the paid (and therefore proficient) servants of all sorts.
All he has to do is get up on time, exercise, eat a ready (- made by others) breakfast, get dressed in clothes made every which ready for him, get driven in a chauffeured car. True, other celebrities share these privileges, but are not punctual, unlike him.
But how can anyone compare such parasitical punctuality with, for example, a one woman army who is multi-tasking every possible way, and without any help whatsoever? However, his punctuality would be made an impossible (i)deal for such non-celebrities who are made to marvel at it, rather like the impossible body shapes of made up, decked beauties strutting the shows of all sorts, be it the screen , the bill boards, or the ramp.
This is NOT to minimise his great punctuality. Nor is it an excuse for lazy dilly-dallying by anyone, celebrity or non-celebrity. Rather, it is a pay-attention-please call for two very important aspects of life: one, celebrating the zealously maintained punctuality of the non-celebrities, and number two, not creating p.r. stuff that creates photoshopped images of real, lived lives!
Pratima@ Are not facts stronger than fictions?
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