First we LOVE them, Then we HATE them, Then we LOVE them AGAIN...

It's funny how we make a big ass deal out of the lives of celebrities; perhaps even more so than our own.

So just yesterday, Rihanna lifted the restraining order off of Chris Brown. And just a few months ago, Weezy was released from jail. And months before that, T.I. was released (right before he went back to jail). And with all these humanistic circumstances, we put these people on this unbelievably high pedestal and get completely pissed when they fall off of it.

I'm almost sure, like me, that many of you forgave T.I. And gave him mercy (even though his album asked for none) quicker than you'd forgive your friend for some petty misunderstanding on facebook. And it took the world no time to love Chris Brown again; seems like just yesterday the world pictured him as vicious and unjust as we did Michael Jackson for being home alone with Macaulay Culkin. Did it take a collabo with Tyga for everyone to take back our deuces and farewells to C Breezy?

My confusion is this: why can't we realize that these people are just that, PEOPLE. They bleed, they cry and they sometimes host dog fights in their high cost mansions. And speaking of Mike Vick, we've fallen back in love with him and his over agressively plays on the field, too.

Seems as though we put those in the lime light in an unreachable category, so unreachable that even they can't live up to it. We forget that behind all the glamour and the albums and the movies, they screw up, they have fights with their girlfriends, they get pulled over for weed possession...they make mistakes.

And what is our usual reaction once their mistakes go public? We get pissed, we turn away from them, harshly judge who they are versus who we've made them up to be. We turn their mistakes into jokes, parodies on Saturday Night Live and South Park.

And ultimately, we are completely let down by someone who don't even know our damn names.

I sometimes wish that the attention we exude for Hollywood's finest was the same love we had for overcrowded schools and this wack ass health care system. And maybe if we treated these celebrities like people, allowing them to make mistakes and move forward and learn better, the media can focus on more important things like finding us jobs and keeping kids off the streets and off of Facebook all day.

Truth is, Fantasia's suicide threat is no different than that outcasted teen who feels there's nothing to live for, so they'd rather be dead. And no b.s., Chris Brown was blasted for physically harming Rihanna, but media didn't too much focus on the scars (be them physical or emotional) that he walked away with. And now, he's absolutely right, we don't need no script for this because it's pretty much predicted that we loved him, hated him and now we love him again.

It's easy to believe that their lives are so much more exclusive than ours. And its even easier to get angry from the other end of our tv screens and radios. But remember, there are real lives behind those screens; traveling thru those airwaves. Real souls that feel disappointed after they mess up. And like you, they don't always learn from their mistakes; Lord knows we all should.

Think about it this way, when you make a mistake; isn't the last thing you need to hear over and over is that you made a mistake? Now think of our celebrities and how they're already exposed publically. When they make mistakes, they hear from the entire public on how intense the mistake was. The public then sensationalizes it, create youtube footage about it and gossip as if these people have no souls, no hearts and no real lives.

Once we realize that these people are to satisfy our entertainment needs and not act as our saints of perfection, we will love and forgive them, just like we expect others to handle our mistakes. Because trust me, the way we judge them, someone, somewhere, will judge us on an even more harsh scale.

Love you,
Vee