An innocent question just for starters. Do you think of yourself as the darling of the office? I mean, come on; there might be nothing wrong in rewarding yourself with a few more medals when no one seems to be willing to give you any. This greedy, greedy world! You consider yourself as diligent worker never having given your bosses any problems. You report early for work and leave late. And somehow no one seems to notice it; or no one is willing to notice except maybe the security guys who want to close shop early and just slip away for a few glasses of Tej! (Yes I capitalized it. Why not!)
A few medals on your own chest! Isn’t that nice? I mean the sixty or so Casanovas in the office might not like it. Who cares? These days there is no shame or self-doubt in applauding yourself. Yes, applauding yourself has become the name of the game. Yes, the boss also wouldn’t like it. No boss however ‘blessed’ he/she might be wouldn’t like the spotlight taken away from them!
With celebrities we sometimes hear they are very well versed in awarding themselves all the medals and stars they could manage! Incidentally, I think we have too many celebrities. Or, am I wrong?
“When will this guy ever catch up with the times!” Maybe never!
“What did he do?”
“Would you believe it? He says we’ve too many celebrities.”
Look, the ladder taking up to the celebrity throne seems to be so near, so convenient that one can become a celebrity sooner than one gets their next haircut! Ha! Could you think of anything faster! These days there are so many celebrities that soon we may run out of space to accommodate all of them. What the hell am I talking about?
“I’m sure you know the guy over there.”
“About which one are you talking?”
“The guy with the watch as big as the Big Ben clock in Arsenal country! Ha! (No, I haven’t turned my back on my team. I’m just being nice to people I know who practically ‘worship’ the Gunners!)
“I haven’t the slightest idea who he is. Never laid eyes on him! So what is it about him?”
“He’s one of the biggest celebrities and you say you never laid eyes on him! Don’t tell me you don’t have a TikTok account?”
I don’t even have the TikTok app. on my phone. Is that wrong?”
(It is not only wrong you good for nothing. wrong you S*&! It’s a cardinal sin!”) That’s the unsaid response suppressed within just to keep the waters of friendship from being disturbed. You’re not going to lose yet another friend!
“Yes, I think it is wrong. Download the app. and I’ll show you the best TikTok accounts so that next time you’ll know all celebrities.”
“Or else…”
“Or else you’d be the last dude at the train station and the next train may never come in another hundred years.” (The guy is really worked up because his friend couldn’t recognize ‘a celebrity!’)
“Really! Then, I should be scared. I’ll be roasting in Hell while you guys live it up in the Garden of Eden! Poor me!”
Recently, I think it is the city’s soccer people were exchanging some words sport journalists working in mainstream media. The journalists cried foul because the federation gave tiktalkers ‘the best seat in the house’ to the extent that the complainants were left out in the cold! How dare they treat the mainstream media people with such disregard! The
Black and white answer is, of course, MONEY! And when it comes to good old money mainstream media is probably an afterthought story, while tiktalkers are the real story. Now, while sympathizing with the left out sports journalists it’d be difficult to write off the federation people because, much of the time, where there’s no money there’s no action! And isn’t football all about action!
So if you think he think tiktalkers are nothing but a lot of hot air well, ladies and gents, think again; that species because it seems to have became the newest specis!) could make or break things these days! (I’m not even sure I spelt ‘tiktalkers’ correctly as there’s no such term in the good old Webster’s and Cambridge’s, not anything that we’ve witnessed anyway!)
And while we’re at it “Do you see that gorgeous young girl over there coming out of the restaurant?”
“Yes, I do. My, my, my! Isn’t she pretty?”
“So yo know her. Why did I think you didn’t?”
“Who said I know her? I don’t! What are toy trying to tell me?”
“She is the celebrity everyone is running after…and..”
“No! No! Not again! Tired of this celebrity talk!”
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