[immigrantheart]

I guess it depends on the definition of rich and famous. How rich? How famous?

These two doesn't come alone. They come with their own baggage as well. Being rich will make you, and your family targeted, either by criminals, by "friends and families", or by the government. Being famous is tiring. You constantly need to pander with people that you don't know, with papparazis, with friends of friends of friends, people constantly looking to network. Being famous without being rich is even worse. You just get death threats, hate mail, etc without the financial means to fend off those.

I want to be rich enough so that I don't have to worry about the future or I can do any work I want without worrying about money, for example, creating music, working on a hobby, etc.

I want to be famous enough so that the people that I care remember who I was, who I am, and who I will be, even when I am no longer in their lives, and live across the world.

[schoen]

I remember meeting a very famous actor once. I was curious about his life and so I went to check out his Twitter account.

It turned out that every day, in response to everything he tweeted about any topic, he got zero-context Twitter replies including marriage proposals, sexual propositions, requests for him to visit random people in random cities, and requests for money. That's just what strangers were willing to send him in public.

This made me think that maybe being famous isn't very enjoyable.