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The Desire for Glory
Date Posted: 2009-10-15
Hardly anyone talks about being famous or their desire to be lauded with glory.
But let's be honest for a minute: we want it.
We might ignore the desire, we might try to minimize it, or bury it. But it's there. Think about the magazines that line the check-out aisle at your grocery store. They are covered with what? Pictures of famous people. There's a reason for that. People buy those magazines because they provide food to that latent desire that we all have to be the person on the cover of the magazine.
Why do people watch American Idol? Is it because we love the music? There are lots of television shows where musical performances happen, and none of them get the attention that Idol gets. American Idol's immense popularity is rooted in one thing: our desire to win glory from the world. American Idol draws people in because it creates a scenario where anyone can become the next star. And if the "regular" people on that stage can do it, maybe you can do it too.
I would also argue that this is the same reason so many love sports and love stories about the unheralded athlete who somehow "makes it" against all odds.
We all desire fame, fortune glory. But where does that desire come from? And how does it find its true fulfillment?
More on Sunday!
