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Name: limeginger
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Subject: @Bart - Is success being famous?
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Time: 12:01:00 AM
Remote Address: 67.244.243.74
Message ID: 245401
Parent ID: 245381
Thread ID: 245336
Bart, your question about is success being famous....it's a great question. And is success happiness? The last conversation my friend and I had was about exactly that.
I do believe that one's success can undergird and reinforce happiness.
But fame...it's so heady. And talk about dangerous. The only people who make it out alive who are famous are people who have other people around them who they've known for a long fucking time, and can keep them grounded when they start to believe their own hype. Otherwise (to paraphrase J5) you balloon and deflate. And if you've predicated your happiness on success and your success on fame -- all nebulous concepts to begin with, and all, ultimately, unobtainable fleeting concepts -- your eventual hollowness is treacherous. And for my former boyfriend to be despairing before my eyes and saying he would KILL himself if his vision didn't manifest -- and that he would literally do ANYTHING (anything) to make it happen, one wonders what happens when that balloon does deflate?
On the positive side that's often when people gran a partner, get married, and start having children -- or, on the dark side, when they do commit suicide.
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