I like 99.999999999999999999999999999999% percent of the human race would like to have riches. To be able to wake up and have nothing to do and all day to do it in. To do what you want to do everyday. To further your own life without great dictation.
Fame? Would I like it? I guess many the “famous” have taken to it well, or they would escape from it. I would dislike it. I would like to be able to do my own shopping, to drive my own car, go to a bar unattended and have a beer without being bothered. privacy, which is very precious to me is hard to come by.
Celebriites have to live in their own insulated world where they can have their own space (alas, the price of fame). People like Michael Jordan cannot travel anywhere on this planet, without people knowing them and bothering them. So, to me, the famous live in highly comfortable cages of their own choosing.
Would you like the FAME of it all? Many top actors make 20 million a film, which is plenty enough to hide and run off. Has anyone ever done that, retire after a 5 picture deal with a 100 million in pocket and a paid mansion in Beverly Hills and say “Screw this, I’m outta here”! Would you?
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Riches honsetly don’t interest me much. As long as I have food on my plate and some kind of roof over my head, I find the extras don’t really make my life all that much better and usually lead to it being a lot less interesting. Theres a certain freedom that comes with poverty, too.
But I crave fame like you wouldn’t believe. I want to remembered. I want to change things and influence things. I want the work I’ve done to be important. I want people to know my name, and appreciate- or at least have an opion about- what I’ve done. If I got invited to all the cool parties, I’m sure I could find some way around not being able to pay for my drink.
All the stuff in the world won’t sustain you if you have nobody to talk to. But people can be infinately interesting in all the forms long after all your stuff has gotten boring and repetative.
I suppose it would be nice to be adulated where ever you go, but then again, it would be nice to be able to turn it off too. I don’t think I would like strangers hanging all over me really. It would be nice to be rich I suppose. But only if I could still have true friends, and I think that might always be in question. I’m sure my wealth would be accompanied by a good deal of philanthropy.