Just Wondering

What's the difference between a person making 10 dollars an hour at his line of work, compared to a celebrity making 10 thousand dollars a day? Nothing, except the dollar amount. Both are working to make a living, both are entitled and needs their privacy and both have the same insecurities.

One choose to be a nurse, another choose to be a rock star. They both make people feel good. So why is a rock star obligated to speak to the media, (with a smile please) pose for photographers (with a smile please) and sign autographs (with a smile please) because "it's good for your career." Why does a rock star have to constantly be on his guard to do well, while the nurse quietly gets up every morning, goes to work and make sure that a patient has a comfortable day and not overdose on a wrong drug? The closest thing that a nurse gets to stardom is when she signs her patients' leg cast.

People will hoist an individual to help him climb the ladder to get to the top - make him a celebrity. Then once he arrives at the top, he looks down below and finds that all is not well, he's now an easy target for people to tear down. Celebrities don't owe the public anything except to do their craft the best way they know how on their arena. When the nurse is off from work, she is not expected to get on the computer and interact with her patients (regardless how much they love her)- she's off. Period. We don't scrutinize, analyze or prophesy about the nurse's career or love life. We don't drool over a nurse.

St. Augustine said: "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
Is it maybe because we're not in awe of ourselves that we create heroes or idols to distract us from ourselves? Just wondering.