Winners stand alone?

I have a habit of rambling around book shelves of libraries and book stores.  Few days back, while nurturing my habit, I paused on a book named “Winners stand alone”. This book is penned by one of the most respected writer, Mr Paulo Coelho. I didn’t read the entire book, but I could extract the central concept. It is the struggle of a budding actress to gain name and fame.  Later I went through the excerpts of the book.  It deals largely with the irrationalities of Hollywood, which dominates the festival, and high fashion. The book reveals the deadly contest of women to become models and actresses as distorting their minds and bodies.

I have read stories of many celebrities.  Many of them were tragedy when they were from film and modelling industry. I don’t know that the ends were really sad or the writer made them. At the end of their lives or in down turns of their careers, the stars were lonely. Nobody was there to stop them from sinking. Ultimately they drowned causing a final sigh in their fans.

I look this loneliness as a by product of our capitalist mentality. People run restlessly for money, wealth and sometimes for fame. They strive for achieving certain status in particular class of society which they think as the highest thing to achieve. In this quest they leave behind their loved ones, their relatives, friends, hobbies ... everything.. Which the capitalist marathon does not allow to intrude. We have forgotten that we were social animal. Socialising not only means having a big friend list of face book and orkut, it means have some people who are with you in good and bad times.

Glamour of the stars especially the film stars never envies me. I have seen and read and felt the negative sides of it.  My grandpa is a patient of Alzheimer disease. He faces difficulty is recognising the people. He is one of those persons who moulded my life and career in early stages. My grandpa is such valuable person to me.  It makes me feel like I am a very popular star, because he remembers me. It is equivalent to have a million fans.

Do the winners stand alone? Answer is NO. Watch Sachin Tendulkar when he is batting. 100 crore Indians stand by him. Most importantly, his family stood by him in all those busy days.

If you are one of the runners of capitalist marathon and feeling uneasiness, please look behind you who else are remained with you. At the end, if you are standing alone means you have lost the game. You are not a winner at all. Amen!