Why do celebrities choose to stay famous?

On the surface level, this question seems easy to answer.

Because most of us look at fame as something that is a dream come

true. A lot of us look at fame with rose-colored glasses. We see fortune, power, attention, praise. We see all of the positives. A lot of us think of fame as almost a form of

Enlightenment, like you've leveled up

leveled up but yet right in front of our eyes

right in front of our eyes we witness the way that fame ruins people's lives.

On a daily basis, we see the struggles of celebrities do to their fame.

And yet we still believe that fame is a good thing. I think it's because, you know, maybe we have a

tendency to look at things with rose-colored glasses when we're not

experiencing them, right?

It's easy to romanticize something that you haven't experienced.

Let's say you have a crush on someone, but you don't really know them.

Chances are you're going to start to build this person up in your head, romanticize them.

Imagine them to be the perfect significant other because you're filling in the blanks of their identity with your own

projections of what you want in a person. But going back to what I was saying, you don't even have to look that hard to see the

negative effects that fame has on celebrities. You don't have to look that hard. It's

right in front of our eyes. It's safe to say that fame is much

more complicated than we think it is on the surface level.

And although it might seem easy to answer the question,

why do famous people choose to stay famous,

I actually don't think it's as easy of an answer

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