Fame just like I do describe it, is like a he-goat that gets attention with his smell whenever he's around.
Fame has its way of showing you off and to be talked about even when you want to be a private person. As long as you become famous, your privacy stylishly turns public.
Most people who tends to get famous in between life gets to give one or two complain of their life adjustment from how they cope with public and their way of life and this made me remember the headline news of the winner of the just concluded big brother Naija that I saw recently saying
The worse adjustment of her life after winning the show was having to make-up everyday for public view.
Let's say before the game, she was her ordinary self and can live her simplicity life with no condemnation but now that she's turned a public figure, it became a burden to look makeupless.
Now, if I Afriken become famous today it surely will be a good thing for my family and I because my work both physically as a drawing artist or spiritually as a song minister requires fame to attract more audience.
With fame, my arts gets to be auctioned for huge amount of money cos most times, people do not bother paying or purchasing quality but brands so my great artworks with no fame makes me a local champion and with fame, my art school gets to be the first out of many that people would wanna choose to go to. So it will really go a long way for me getting famous and changing my life for good.
Since it's a kind of fame that changes my life for the better financially, I'm gonna accept it and embrace it front and back but I guess I might just have to adjust to the new life of being famous.
We all know that every level of growth comes with a price and still, we focus on chasing growth despite what may be at stake so adjusting to the new life shouldn't be a big deal.
And come to think of it, as a song minister and a drawing artist, we are meant to be public so I'm already a public person but the only thing I might not allow to define what my fame brings about is people's expectations of me in terms of my way of living.
Even if I'm famous, I live for myself. Even if I'm famous like A, that doesn't mean I should live like A. We may be standing same way but we are not hungry in same manner.
Just like a friend of mine whom I see as being financially okay and standard would say whenever I get to tease him of still working harder despite his riches, he would say:
It's still fair when you're struggling to rise but it is a doom if you were once up but now you're down and struggling to rise again.
With this above statement, I want to chip in that instead of copying a flamboyant fame lifestyle because that's the way, I am rather embracing my fame to work harder so that I don't end up becoming a famous person of the past with no relevance anymore.
So fame brings more hardwork and more dedication than when no one knew you cos you don't wanna be irrelevant. Each day passing by is like facing the fear of never going back to that level you rose from and instead of bowing my head because of the life adjustment that comes with it, I would rather happily enjoy the goodies fame brings to my life and work harder to keep it.
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