Written Portfolio Assignment- "The Public Eye"

The Public Eye

People often glance at a magazine waiting in line at the grocery store. Always’ expecting the worst from some hotshot. What’s with the public fascination always craving information about celebrities? What makes the information so special, I mean does it really matter who it effects. Does it really matter that Brittney Spears is going crazy? Jessica Simpson’s marriage with Nick Lachey is on hiatus or has O.J “Accidentally” killed again. Perhaps us “normies” crave this because it shows the public the flaws that famous people have, comforting the public about there flaws in other words cushioning the blows of public criticism.

People like to spread rumors about someone to make there lives more interesting. Its not just with adults, it happens even more at schools. Teenagers often learn to spread rumors in high school and it often escalades later on in there lives. Does what sex matter?
In most cases it does, Women generally love to talk about other people and pay attention to the littlest of details and eventually blow it all out of proportion and it escalades from the truth to a big fat lie.

We always crave this gossip because it’s what makes life interesting. It’s completely natural for humans to act the way they do. Without drama life would be like a dull carnival ride that we all have ridden on so many times. Paparazzi are the men and women that dig into the lives of famous people so that the public can learn about there personal life. Perhaps the public think’s by copying the way they live there life that they might become famous as well.

Our world revolves around famous people, everything they do have an impact on today’s society. How skinny does a girl have to be before she’s considered hot? How muscular or tone does a man have to be until he’s considered handsome. These people aren’t real, they don’t act the way the do 24 / 7. The only time they are shown is when there on camera, for all that society knows celebrities could have secret meetings so that they can plot there scheme to eventually take over the world.

There will always be famous people, and with that there will always be people obsessed. Its how society has been for a long time, it’s not a bad thing, but why do people need to pry there way into peoples personal lives, it just doesn’t make sense. Instead of following some hotshot, why don’t you become that someone that everyone else wants to be.


By: Adam Shamei

Word count: 432