I've been toying with the idea of talking about this topic for a few days now...actually it's been on my mind at times for a long time, but it hasn't left the past few days. I was going to make a video about it, but figured it's easier to follow in black and white. For those of you who follow me on Youtube, you know how passionate I can get about certain topics and I didn't want to be all over the place with this.
I live in NY. Born and raised and the longest I've been away was for 6 months due to Hurricane Sandy. But I'm back and loving it! I guess NY is where I get my realness from. Anyway, with living here comes the amazing opportunity of living so close to the city, it's just a short train ride away. Well known people (I hate the word "celebrities") do a lot of their free events there and occasionally if I really love you, I'll even pay to go to one. But having the opportunity to go see and even meet so many of these people really makes me think. I've got a knack of being able to read people well and detect whether or not you're being real with me, and tons of "celebrities" are really fake. But I decided long ago (never to walk in anyone's shadows...*cough* sorry, Whitney just takes over my brain sometimes!) that I couldn't support anyone in the lime light that I didn't respect as a person. If I don't appreciate a waitress because of her attitude, I sure as hell won't appreciate a singer, actress, dancer, etc. for their bad attitude. And I ALWAYS make my own judgments, because everyone is entitled to a bad day and the media tends to mischaracterize people ALL the time. But there are the occasional bad moods in everyone's life, well known or not. I don't believe people should take it out on fans, but it does happen and as long as it's only heard of a handful of times (if that) then I can overlook it. And by the way, being too fake or sugar coated nice isn't appreciated much either. I think it's worse than being rude and ungrateful. I guess because I've come across so many fake people in my life and I just want to slap and tell them to be honest. Sorry, I told you I ramble and get excitable when I'm passionate about something, and it might get worse. Stick with me though LOL.
Two people who are completely picked apart for everything they do are Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy, the most talented, underrated and misjudged pros on "Dancing With The Stars". Let me tell you, these 2 get TERRIBLE press sometimes and it really overshadows their amazing talent...not to mention all of it is completely untrue. I've had the opportunity to meet both of them, first on June 6, 2011 at an event for their franchise of studios and then again on January 27,2012 when the studios created an event for fans so that they could help Maks celebrate his 32nd birthday. I had the chance to meet them and their family and they are amazing, gracious, sweet and down to Earth people. The world is just not used to REAL coming from a Hollywood based show and well, that's what you get with these boys. And I really appreciate that about them, probably as much as I appreciate their talent. They keep their family and friends close, but they also are not afraid to be themselves and tell it like it is if you follow them on places like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It's very refreshing to see people that have an uncensored and not so politically correct opinion. We are all entitled to it.
My point of this blog is, we all need to embrace ourselves and our lives and appreciate the realness that others show us. It's like the saying "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not". I'd rather be slapped in the face with the truth than someone coming up slyly from behind with a lie.
