#icareaboutnobody

This has really been bugging me. Say you have a friend, or a family member, or anybody you know personally who has a drug problem. Could be anything, from something as little as pot, to something as bad as coke. If you knew that person was struggling, what would you do? I assume, at least for any generally sane person who cares about people at all, you would help them out. Try to get them into a rehab program, try to make them realize they have a problem. I assume you would not crack jokes at their expense, or encourage them to continue to make you laugh.


That is for a personal friend, or somebody you know. So why do celebrities seem to get the raw deal? Because they are rich? Because they make more in a week then most of us will make in five years? So what? They are still human beings. 


This is what I'm seeing with the now-debacle that is Charlie Sheen. The man has some serious issues, obviously. He is a mess, living with porn stars who further his drug habit to get his money, and an endangerment to his kids. Yet for some reason, every time I see something about him, it is nothing but criticism. This is where the "money is the root of all evil" saying comes into play. 

That is the shell of a former acting star

Charlie Sheen has nobody. He has no friends. He has people, that talk to him for his money, for his fame. Yet, is anybody talking to him, saying "hey Charlie, you have a serious problem, you need to get some help". No. This is only furthered by the fact that the general public has now adopted his stupid "winning" and "tigerblood" catchphrases into everyday life. Somebody like Charlie Sheen (who gained over a million followers in a day after joining Twitter) will interpret this as he is doing the right thing, and people are following in his example. From what I heard, he is thinking about going on the road, to do a show of just him, ranting. Seriously?


This seems to happen all the time. If there is one time the general public needs to back off, it is when celebrities have a problem. I know most of us believe they don't deserve the money they are making, but bottom line, they are still human. Most of us would not be able to handle people following us around, documenting every aspect of our lives for 10 mins, let alone an entire lifetime. We look at people like Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep and say, "that is how they are supposed to be acting", when in reality, most celebs can't live up to that. For every Tom Hanks, we get 10 Charlie Sheens. For every Meryl Streep, we get 10 Lindsay Lohans. 


We all have our problems, and some of us would probably look just as bad if our lives were shown to the national public. Leave these people alone. Let them get some help, alone, without cameras following their every move. Charlie Sheen was a great actor. His "Wild Thing" Rick Vaughn may go down as one of the best characters of all time. Now, he is finished. At the rate he is going, he'll probably be dead within a year. 


All I'm saying is none of us are perfect, so stop asking celebrities to be. Support them when they need it, don't make it worse. 


Song currently stuck in my head:
Overrated (Everything Is) - Less Than Jake