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@maybegray
I think the desire for fame is like a desire for a sense of significance that you actually have to be able to find within & ppl who do get famous end up paying for it a lot in a ton of diff ways & finding out it doesn't actually help w the feelings of insignificance much at all
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Victoria Lynn
@incertaspecie
mm even at the top, there're always others at the ...tippy top. "Well ___ has a private jet" "Well ___ has an ISLAND" etc. The impulse to compare doesn't adjust to wealth or success. The bar is set astronomically high to get any attention that might register as significant.
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Victoria Lynn
@incertaspecie
You're constantly inundated with unwarranted adoration. If you don't have a ton of depth there's a dissonant part of you that feels 'undeserving' & it interacts with the part of your brain that desires to smash it through MASS external validation. The dispute is rarely resolved.
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Victoria Lynn
@incertaspecie
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@QiaochuYuan
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@maybegray
Ha! LSD at higher doses every day. The fame trip is wild, and I genuinely don't envy it. I think curiosity prevailed until I saw it up close. Once I did I found it extremely unglamorous. (...Emotionally. Physically it is actually p glamorous, but it fades relatively quickly.)
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