Leave Paris Alone

Imagine from your very first cry into the world, from your home on Mt. Olympus, you were treated as the baby goddess you were.  Imagine never having a need for one single thing in life.  Pampered and adored, you are completely unaware of the realities of everyday life, the untold vagaries of people trying to get through just one more day.  Imagine if your main function was shopping, and of course you do it well.  You surround yourself with other baby gods and goddesses, because they understand you.

I keep hearing how Paris Hilton "needs to learn a lesson."  Exactly what does she need to learn, how to be someone she never was?  Okay, she broke a law and of course is expected to pay like all of us do.  But she was used as a political pawn to show how the law must be equal for all people.  Yet, when given a month in prision she was released within DAYS in perfect accordance with the shark-like lawyers her family hired.  Days.  During her first incarceration she got by just fine because she knew she'd be getting out VERY soon - so she used the time to tell open-mouthed girls that, yes indeed she really did throw out a $5,000. dress because of a catsup stain.  Paris was in the limelight, which warms her. 

When she was released to house arrest, THAT was her real punishment.  She wasn't allowed out to shop, which is torture for a goddess.  She developed a skin rash from not being able to wear all the gold, copper, silver, other metals that enter one's pores and certainly hers for many years.  So her skin reacted.  Okay, that's reasonable in her world.  It was far more difficult for her to sit at home without being able to drive to a pal's place or check out the latest diamond bracelet or $200. shoes or ... it's another world.  It's Mt. Olympus.  That's where she's from.

So when the judge sent her BACk to jail, she cried "It's not fair!"  And she was right - it WASN'T fair to HER in her world because she'd already DONE her term of punishment by being locked in her house (however magnificent we may imagine it) but there she was, unable to go out.  Couldn't party.  Couldn't shop.  Couldn't bask in the limelight of the papparazzi who she adores and they adore everything she does but most especially if it's a mis-step.  Ordinary folks love to see that.  For shame.

Now she'll be on probation for two years.  I'm sure she'll make the best of it, since she'll be able to pose, shop, party, visit, dress-up, buy that diamond bracelet, all the things a goddess is expected to do, and was raised to expect.  

For whatever it's worth, and whatever you think of her, this is a human being who was raised on Mt. Olympus.  She has a different reality than we do.  It doesn't make her wrong.