Everyone loves being favored. Nothing wrong with this. Enjoy to your heart’s content. If the world adores you, then enjoy this adoration while you're at it.
Here’s the thing: You don't have to be adored by the world. You don't have to be in the limelight. It is also perfectly all right to be ordinary and unnoticed in the world. What you think of yourself truly matters, for how you think of yourself is what your life amounts to.
You can also be the unobtrusive valet who walks around in the background. You don’t have to be the focus. You can just as well be the valet as the man who is served. You don’t have to be the star of the show. There really isn’t all that much to it. Anything you must have rules the roost.
It comes right down to this: What matters most is who you are and not plaudits or what you seemingly possess.
Fame is short-lived, and what do you have when you have it? What you are is yours. You belong to your Being. You are yourself, and this is wonderful. Regardless of anything else, you are God's Child. You are definitely My Child.
Be glad that you made it this far.
When there is a time you see yourself set above others, know this is just a flash in the pan, and get over it.
When you yearn for something out of reach, it seems awesome. When you do have it, it’s just another something to deal with. That which you sought, as soon as it is in your hand, may seem cumbersome. You might have to even brace yourself for it.
Enjoy fame or whatever you desire to your heart’s content. Only remember you are no one but yourself. Better not to believe in your fans’ propaganda. You are a simple human being. It is said that the world is your oyster. Truly, your world amounts to your soul. How many pals go around claiming to adore your soul? You might as well start valuing your own soul.
Sometimes someone or something just seems to catch on, somewhat like Beanie Babies or hula hoops in the world. In the world, nothing seems to last forever. Here today and gone tomorrow. Where are the snows of yesterday? Today is all that there is.
Those who have reached high points of favor in the world don’t always love their status. They may love it for what it does for them, yet not for itself. For a while, for a known or unknown reason, you are the favorite ice cream flavor of the day, week, year or possibly a lifetime. Yet, at some point, what is it really that you’ve got, and what does it matter, and to whom does it matter?
There is no categorical best. There are ideas of best that sooner or later seem to pall and gather dust. You know this by now. The best furniture needs dusting as well as remnant pieces of wood thrown together. Caviar spoils the same as slumgullion stew. The greatest performance in the world gets supplanted by another.
But the content of life, can keep going on in your heart and in your mind, or it may not. This supports once again the idea that everything is an idea. And all the great ideas that gripped you once do not always keep the spectacular glow they once had. You turn from them. It can be you outgrow them. In any case, the thrill is no longer there.
Wow, that was a great day when you had the best penmanship in your class. You just can’t seem to replicate the same great feeling today. You may or may not still have the same penmanship, yet you can’t quite seem to pour back the energy into it that once you did. It's like what you once treasured got painted over, and you no longer whoop over it. Somehow, someway, whatever it was lost its former fascination.
Such is Life, ever-changing before your very eyes. Life gets poured into the past, the present, and the future, and Life just doesn’t always add up. That's okay. That's part of Life. Life has every right to change and you with it.