long, long ago...

I think that the reason I think celebrities are moe mature for their age is because they are, but I used to think it was a way we distance them from ourselves. In stories to gsain credibility it happend long ago and far away.

I was just realizing that famous singers and actors were always much older than me, now they are younger, so weren't they ever my age. I used to think the same about Missionaries that my dad would try to pawn me off on saying that I can cook and wash dishes etc. It never bothered me because they were way distant to me in age, not really though, but when I was the same age, I nearly lived on splits with the sister missionariers or fed them. Anyway, then they were waay younger than me, little kids even, and really my friend's have children who are married or on missions, one friend kindly said, "I guess you just weren't as anxious as the rest of us." But being overly anxious is actually a problem for me.

I always did the same thing with actors, they were always much older or much younger, surely some must be the same age. I nearly freak out when I realize a famous musician is my age. But that explains what they were doing and why I didn't find many like-minded pople around. I was out busy being normal while they were being famous. We are not seperate, my cultural icons and I by age but by a mystical maturity level that seperates us. I missded noticing when I was at that particular point to be able to relate.

On that note, it found out that famous musicians attended the same summercamps as me and such, places where my superiotity felt unchallanged. I guess awesomeness isn't really indicated well by popular opinion. There are alot who would be deemed amazing even by their own critical peers, though.

It is just fun to think what if my best friend, LeAnne, was actually a superstar something or other. wel, I'll tell you what. She would probably not be my friend and would be a much less cool person. But that misses the point, that I could be so close in age and maturity or in other words familiarity with people I held higher than myself.