Apparently Cheryl Cole was spotted in LA without her wedding ring. Rumour has it that her husband’s most recent infidelities were the last straw. In her latest smash hit Cheryl sang:
“We’ve got to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight for this love –
If it’s worth having it’s worth fighting for.”
Can you spot the key word in that lyric? The key word is “if.” IF it’s worth having THEN it is worth fighting for. But if it’s NOT worth having then it is NOT worth fighting for. So is it worth having? This seems to be the questions that young Cheryl is asking herself at the moment.
In other celebrity gossip, Tiger Woods made a public statement in which he instructed us all that:
“I cheated. What I did is not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame.” He went on to angrily insist that his wife Elin deserves “praise, not blame”.
Er, memo to Tiger: Nobody is blaming your wife for anything. Everyone is blaming you. Nobody is even remotely suggesting that anyone but you is the person to blame. So what on earth are you on about?
Anyway, the general public find consolation in these celebrity scandals. We think to ourselves: “They may be more beautiful, more wealthy, more successful and more famous than me, but their lives are still a mess”. This makes it easier for us to cope with our own mediocre and modest lives.
But it is true that wealth, beauty and fame are not much use without wisdom. As the great philosopher Spinoza once said:
“He whose honour is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away. Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others. The object of the strife being estimated as the greatest of all goods, each combatant is seized with a fierce desire to put down his rivals in every possible way, till he who at last comes out victorious is more proud of having done harm to others than of having done good to himself. This sort of honour, then, is really empty, being nothing.”
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