In this world we live in today, celebrities are glorified. Everybody wants to be like them, rich, famous, good-looking and apparently, talented. But how much an extent is talent that important in distinguishing celebrities from normal people, compared to wealth and looks that have come to define society's pop culture today? 

Take Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Chris Brown, for example. All are famous for their looks and their supposed abilities - great voice, good acting skills, so on and so forth. Yet how much of it is really true? Do people just think they have talent for the very fact that they are famous and good-looking? And many of these talent scouts and agents, do they recruit people based on talent or do they recruit them based on looks? Modelling is a whole industry that relies on looks. Models usually just have to be skinny and attractive to succeed in their career.

Yet it's funny. Funny how they can earn so much more than a blue-collared worker or even a professional. Funny how these so-called ordinary people need to right skills and a whole lot of hard work to make a living many times smaller than a person who works in the entertainment industry. And yet that person actually contributes to the society even more. A construction worker risks his life to build the very buildings that these models and actors work in. And these people, what do they do? Provide us with entertainment?

Yes, one may argue that entertainment is actually a need and not a want. But do we really need all the glamour and glitz of today's entertainment industry? In the past, when there a red carpet or a runway ceased to exist, the people still managed to keep themselves entertained. There were entertainers back then too of course, but they argubly relied much more on skill and talent.

And take Susan Boyle's example. When she came on to stage, looking all unglamorous, the audience laughed. They ridiculed her, thought she was a joke. But she had the last laugh, showed them a display of raw talent. Everyone was amazed despite the low expectations. And everyone in this world, including you and me wonders how someone like her could be so talented. We are all guilty of thinking that someone with good looks would perform better, proving how much looks comes into play insteda of talent.

At the end of the day, looks don't count for anything. They're going to wear away eventually. But talent never wears away. And that's why it counts more.