No one is worth fawning over

No one. Actors, singers, even politicians are just people we've given extra significance to. That does not mean they are better than anyone else, or that their lives are somehow worth more. That's the scariest thing I think I've ever realized, because the illusion of celebrity makes it easier to accept the illusion that the poor and the weak and the hungry in this world are somehow less. But we are all just members of the same mamallian species, and we will all die, and one day we will all be forgotten. I wish, I wish there were more chances, but I cannot make myself believe in reincarnation anymore than I can make myself believe in an afterlife or an all-loving god. And so my goal in life from now on is to not be afraid to fail, and to try and even out the playing field a little for the people out there who had the shitty luck to be born into worse circumstances than my own.