Fame - The condition of being known or recognized by many people.
Fame is something that some people can handle well and others can't. In reality its quite a burden. When your famous its easy to become prideful, lose sight of what is important, and even depressed.
Either you take in the praise or shove it away. When you take in the praise you typically become prideful and maybe even addicted to it. Fame can feel like a buzz, to hear you name called, written, and exclaimed all over does not feel like normal life, but surreal. If you get addicted you will keep on doing what can you do to get more and more praise until you end up where you never thought you would. You will find yourself doing things you may have promised yourself you never would. And then either you find that even fame doesn't fulfill you or the fame will run out and you will chase that buzz in other things as such as drugs.
If you shove the fame away, you seclude yourself because you feel oppressed or don't know how to react. When one doesn't like the fame its easy for them to shut the world out, but its nearly impossible when they have so many people wanting to see them.
Either method of living with fame doesn't seem any good, but I didn't mention the one other way to live with fame. Instead of taking in the praise for ourselves or trying to push away the fame we can direct and give it to God. God deserves all Glory and we are to give it to Him. When you know that it is God who has given you everything you have no reason to have any sort of pride in yourself.
As Christians, no-matter what people say about us or how famous we become we know that its really not us or about us. We know that we are only good because of Christ in us and we know that we are only at the very place we are now because of His perfect plan.
Do you still think you want some fame for yourself or do you wish to give it to God who profoundly deserves all praise?
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