Idol Pursuers

張貼日期：Jun 07, 2009 4:11:22 PM

Idol Pursuers

Janet Chen

No matter what age you are in, I believe there is always someone or something that you admire so much and set it as a model. And it is not hard to find this circumstance often happens to teenagers due to the convenience of mass communication nowadays that makes those teenagers accept the instant world news as soon as possible. Naturally, the most popular thing they’re usually talking about is idols! As for parents, most of them dislike their kids to admire idols and furthermore they consider it to be a kind of pejorative behavior; nevertheless, I take the points of view of teenagers because I am also an idol pursuer.

Education is what parents are extremely concerned about. Thus, in order to make their children receive good education, most parents try their best to remove anything that might affect kids’ learning, and unfortunately idols are one of them. They view idols as witches in the medieval, good at seducing human beings as well as harshly pushing them into death. How terrible idols are!

In my opinion, I totally disagree with parents’ consideration! Take myself as an example. I’ve been a Japanese idols pursuer since I was in the junior high. Even though I have been crazy about idols, I never forget my study and even find something new to learn from my idols, such as Japanese, Japanese culture, etc. Because of idols, I have extensively broadened my horizon and now besides speaking Chinese and English, I can also write and speak a little Japanese. What a surprise!

The second reason why parents oppose their children’s worshiping idols is because of money. Once the idols release their new singles, albums, video products, or hold concerts worldwide, teenagers who are idol pursuers must take out all the money they have or try to save it for activities concerning the idols; for instance, they start to save money from meal fees so that they need to endure hunger and turn to ask help from their friends. Of course parents must get angry toward this behavior and think, “I work so hard for my dear kids, but they use the money for idols! Is that fair?”

Well, about the second reason, I think the problem is not on idols; instead, it’s the problem about teenagers’ improper attitude. If they confess to their parents why they need more extra money peacefully or how they’re going to do with the money at the very beginning, I believe both sides will find a perfect method finally and not argue with each other. And parents can take idols as stimulation for teenagers to work hard and push themselves to achieve their goal. It’s just the same way as the teachers who often use that kind of praise for little children.

If you want to be a sensible idol pursuer, here is my suggestion: as long as you keep doing what you need to do and realize where your position is, then idols won’t be an obstacle. Instead, it’s a great motive for you to improve yourself.