Overexposed

     We live in a world that seems to thrive on overexposure. People want to be famous. They want to have everyone hang onto their every word. Everyone needs to know their name, even if it's only for those 15 seconds. Are they looking for meaning? Purpose? Validation perhaps? What are they going to do with those 15 seconds? Anything worthwhile? Nope. They milk it for all it's worth, and desperately hang on to it with their fingernails as it starts to slip away. When it's over, they are stunned to find that they are no better off, no happier, and no more fulfilled than they were when they were a mere mortal; unknown. It happens again and again, and yet we are surprised at every story we read about some other person getting lost in the shuffle, and falling off the deep end when they get there.