ITS NONE OF MY BUSINESS

You know, it's funny when we always say that everyone should mind their own business but every time an issue with an entertainer, movie star, singer, artist has something going on in their lives we are all up in their business. If it hits home then we are ready to throw punches about your business. Are we that confused? Or is it because those people mentioned above are to the public or because they have no right to privacy just like you?

What sense does that make? You don't want any one in your business but you are all on the websites that dropping all kinds of private information on them, let's compare your privacy to theirs: You both have lives, some of  you are married, some have kids, you both have personal, physical, mental problems on some levels, both really don't want their business told. The only thing different is probably they have more power and money.

Why is it our business to be all up in their business but get bent all out of shape when someone knows our business?  Are we embarrassed about what goes on in our own lives and we feel better that others are suffering like us even though they have the money?

I will say this, we have to stop making everybody business our business and stop getting upset when you are being questioned about your business. I would love to see one of the entertainers turn around and start asking personal questions about us. Just to see how that feels. Why do we really need to know what is really going on in someone else's personal life?

When you think about those stupid reality shows about our Black women such as Atlanta Housewives, Love and Hip Hop, it seems that we are so obsessed with these reality shows that we relate or try to emulate their lives. I find that creepy. There is no way I would want that much drama in my life. I can't handle the little drama I might have my mental, emotional couldn't handle.

Now just imagine how these people feel when they have to bear all with millions of viewers on a constant basis.  They have no private life they get abused by their spouse, their son is on drugs, their daughter is pregnant, their finances are in a turmoil. Think about what if that is you and you really don't want people to know that side of your life. Again do you think it's fair that we are all up in their business because we can?

Is there a possibility that we can for once not listen to gossip, I know a lot of people will lose their business because their whole life is dishing the dirt on others. But get truly offended when it comes to their business.

Sometimes we have to shine the light on ourselves and ask ourselves is it really my business who Rhianna is sleeping with, where she shops to buy her clothes really?

Dishing the dirt on entertainers, artists, movie stars is it really important or because we purchase their movies, music, and clothing that we have the right to know what goes on behind their closed doors?

So is that a slave and master or boss and employee relationship?

You don't want your boss in your personal business, some of us get straight mad when someone asks you some of the simplest questions about our  so-called personal business.

Now the business that would interest me, is how my children are doing in school, how is the economy, what is the political climate at this time and what is going to the job market. Those are the things that I would think would be important to me.

Don't get me wrong, entertainment is entertainment but no one's personal hardship and bad times should be something we find interesting unless you are lending a word of encouragement.
Celeste B. McCall