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How do you respond looking at female celebrity pictures, especially if you are female? What is your favourite part, the dress she is wearing or is it the plastic surgery she may have gotten recently and the fact that her obvious breast enhancement were on the cover of a local magazine?

We find these pictures useful in so many different ways, contradictory ways. To find out what the latest fashions and flare the greatest or, most famous of us anyway are wearing so we can copy them. At the same time look for flaws that the most famous of exhibit in order to bring them down or keep them at our regular level.

It is if we are trying to mimic them in a a way that some of their fame reflects of us and at the same time trying to see our normal lives reflected in their lives. This reassures us of our own self-worth and self esteem in a relatively easy way.

One can even think of it as the poor man’s form of psycho-analysis and this is his or rather her way of transferring a need or weakness onto the celebrity in any given picture and the story behind that particular picture or group of pictures. Thus he/she sees their weaknesses in the subject and in return can reverse transfer the strengths of the subject in the picture onto him/herself.

It can be a rather painful feeling if we are honest and see our weaknesses in the celebrity behold but not their strengths and good or great characteristics in ourselves. The sub-conscious is there to put all the things that don’t like about ourselves away to we can get on with our day to day survival.

If we are honest with ourselves than we have to accept our own ‘failures’ and ‘inadequacies’ and this is when things can get really interesting, for the good or for the better for all and for ourselves, once again depending on what kind of person we are or what kind of attitude we subscribe to.

We can accept our mediocre and normal lives and see only this in the lives of those who have achieved and a simple coping mechanism or a crutch and thus we would not have to do any actual work. We can accept what we see as a pathetic existence and slowly fade away into oblivion, occasionally seeing someone who actually put some effort into doing something with their lives fall and get our empty joy from this like some gutless wonder and armchair achiever.

Alternatively we can recognize that there is always to do in our lives, and ore to accomplish. We can use the celebrity in the picture as an example of what can be done, what can be accomplished. What one man or woman can do, another man or woman can do. That is the way to live. ‘Do not go quietly into that goodnight, rage, rage with the dying of the light’ as the poet wrote. Oh well, it’s better than sitting around doing nothing.

Everyone loves looking at hot chicks right?