Celebrity
Wednesday, 20. December 2006, 06:35:58
Celebrity
Part of the reason I'm staying away from doing any events (besides working on my book, I'll let you guys know when it's up on amazon!) is that I've crossed over the threshold of celebrity enough that a one sided caricature of my personality is being developed by the people 3 degrees or more from me.
As much fun as a care free playboy lifestyle, complete with harems and the toying of women's emotions sounds like fun *gag* my life is far from that. I've earned every single one of my close friendship bonds through caring and investing in people's good will.
Yes, I do know more people than normal. Sure, plenty them are women. By no means did this come about through manipulations or falsifying information about myself. Everyone has a hobby and talents, I happen to be good at meeting people. I also tend to have more in common with women than men. The biggest guy thing I do is play video games, but more often than not I find that subculture not as socially engaging as I wish them to be. I also spend more time meeting people than almost everyone that I know. Instead of watching TV or movies, I'm usually either with someone going somewhere and that always leads to meeting someone new.
I appreciate all the new perspectives meeting hundreds of people. I feel like I have a greater understanding of the modern human condition because of the fact. Between being out and about and the time I spend learning about how people work, our minds tick, books on sociology, and articles on psycology, biology, and human evolution I would like to think it gives me a larger tool set to be a better friend or even a valuable asset to my social net work.
I never built this network expecting something to come out of it. I figured this is the best way I can say I left the world better than I found it, by connecting people together that would have otherwise never would have met at any other time in their lifetimes. I do this to the point where it hurts, I do this with people I have nothing in common with, I do this sometimes for people I wouldn't like in any other situation. Hell, I know most people won't even read this and I hate people who don't read!
Recently myself and those close to me are being attacked by a hater or group of haters who may or may not be conspiring together in efforts to slander us. Sadly most of the motivation is out of either jealously and/or misplaced intentions.
Living a life outside common social norms, being a character or "personality" makes people put you under the magnifying glass. In an attempt to understand the social anomaly people start to fill in their gaps of knowledge with what makes sense with their own set of experiences. This is a normal way of trying to understand someones life, however when someone is far out side your own set of experiences its nearly impossible to make the correct assumptions.
Sometimes just the fact that you're under the publics focus makes you an unsavory character in some people's eyes.
Now I understand that the worse thing I can do is continue my personal media black out. I'm going to have to keep up social contacts for my own defense. I need to get the message out their about who I am on my own one person at a time. It may take me a while to reorganize things and to make sure I have time for the current projects and priorities in life but I'm coming back. It's more sacrifice, it's more money, it's more time, but I'm not letting anyone or anything tear at my own life's work.
I'm the only PR person I've got.

