Look at those two picture above. Carefully, examine them. Do you see any difference in how she looked? That's the Price of Popularity.
Billie Eilish has gone through a massive success in just a year. But this massive success came with a price. During her recent interview session with Vanity Fair, you could totally see how she reacted, her expressions, even her tone of voice. They were all totally different from last year.
How quickly time passed, eh?
She's depressed, and she admitted it. Even she said that she was jealous looking at the way she was in 2017. She didn't know how she turned up this way.
She is young and she didn't know how to cope with sudden rise of fame.
Popularity has took over her freedom, her privacy and you could watch her interview and she was totally in a dark place.
Nowadays, teenagers and youngsters who are status-seekers, often end up anxious, depressed, and with addiction problems.
In the age of Instagram and entitlement era, it’s no surprise that most of us then are gravitating to the wrong kind of attention.
Most of us/them confuse the two types of popularity, and search for the wrong one.
During the pre-internet day, this wasn't much of a problem. Back then, it was just phase. But today, adolescence would hit and teenagers were so easily became consumed with a desire to be noticed, accepted, and approved.
Do you want to be noticed? Or do you want to feel that you are matter?
To the world? Or only the people that matter?
These are some questions we should be asking, if one day we feel that not being a popular is being an outcast.
Nobody is an outcast because no one is the same. Everyone is different in their own way.
We are different. And differences make us matter.