Primetime of your Life

Have you been following the Oscars buzz? I thought i could avoid it this year but i succumbed tonight when i was on my mums iPad Youtubing Ellen De Generes and her appearances as a host for this years Oscars. I enjoyed her a lot. She was funny, outgoing, clever and quick witted. I was kind of taken aback at the amount of famous people that were in the first three rows of the audience. I had never seen so many bunched altogether at the same time before. When you read gossip magazines, it gives you a sense as if they all live really close together but the fact is, although they all predominantly live in LA, the photos in the magazine are taken from places all over the world or the country.

Being a famous person at the Oscars, especially one who has been to more than one Oscars event would be sort of like going to a graduation ceremony every year. You see all these new people 'graduate' from a star into somewhat now of a super star now they've got this prestigious ( and heavy ) award in their hands. Imagine being someone like Meryl Streep or Whoopi Golberg who's been in the industry for years. What would they have to say about seeing new comers come or old comers go or actors who've been around for ages who are finally being noticed? Can we bring about our own prime time? What even gets to decide that for us? The prime time of our life. The time where we are succeeding, exceling or shining in areas more than we ever have before. A 'prime' for women has been said to be around their 30s. For men, i'm not so sure. For myself, for some reason i have always believed that i'd be at my best at 24. Guess the pressures on this year to make this a reality. Now that i'm in this year and in this moment, i feel like this was a pipe dream. Although i feel like 24 is kind of old, i know that i'm wrong and that it's still young as hell.

PS. Read what i had to write about sleeping in a single bed at age 23 
here
and also my latest opinion piece about Faux feminism and Real feminism here