“Did you see Kim Kardashian’s new hair? The blonde really suits her face, I have to see more pictures.” Have you ever stopped to think why we say these things?

Celebrities can seem unobtainable and superior to everyone else, but in reality they are just people. Often our society is so consumed with knowing their every move that we fail to realize they are people just like us. They make mistakes, they aren’t perfect. We should hold not them to such high standards.

But, why has this become so prevalent in our generation? We choose to document the lives of people like Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z and unlike past generations, we use the newest obsession: social media. Past generations did not have this technology so the spread of celebrities’ every activity didn’t travel as swiftly.

We, as humans, do this because of our natural curiosity, we want to know more about any and everything, and social media is a way we can express our curiosity for celebrities without being pegged creepy or stalkerish. “We can fulfill our curiosity when it comes to a distant star but not in intimate life or we’ll be chastised,” Jada Thomas (12) said.

“It’s a way to escape reality. Reading about Katy Perry’s new boyfriend is a lot more uplifting than reading about the police shooting that resulted in three deaths,” Alex Robinson (12) said. Their lives seem perfect and better than our own, and we strive to make our mark just as they have. Looks don’t hurt either.

“We model our lives around them hoping to have the things that they have accomplished, not thinking that we can do the things they do and get what they can get by ourselves. We also enjoy the fact that they are pretty or handsome or they have a sex appeal,”  Excellence Hinds (11) said.

Desiring to know all about celebrities poses the question if this is a bad thing? Does worrying about what new song Beyonce will release or what red carpet outfit Rihanna will wear make us obsessive or curious? “It is obsession. We should focus on how we achieve goals rather than trying to copy their method of achieving them, Josey Chumney (11) said.

The methods we use to garner information about Drake or Ariana Grande is borderline obsession and needs to be addressed. We fail to realize that people are people. Their lives may make us ignore reality for awhile, or help us aspire to be something greater; nevertheless, the lengths we take to know more about them needs to be halted.