I'm so down...

This week, during an especially boring (i.e. important) work meeting on the importance of appropriate employee behavior, 
I found my mind wandering around to the notion of "down to earthiness". 

"How down to earth am I?", I thought responsibly, 

as I sat there in my homely midwestern office attire amongst colleagues unphased by fleeting fashion trends, Oscar gowns, and bawdy statement jewelry. 

Then I realized, to my disappointment, that my being 'down to earth' was nowhere near as flattering as say, Jennifer Lawrence's being graced by the same description. 

But why?

Why are celebrities who act average admirable, but average people who act average just...average? 

In fact, I'd even venture to say that the non-famous, everyday American actually suffers from the very same approachability that makes certain stars so damn enviable. 

Unless you've been deemed by some higher power (Hollywood Foreign Press, Vogue, not your mom, etc, etc) to be worthy of being put on a pedestal, 
blatantly avoiding said pedestal can actually prove detrimental. 

I mean, isn't that where they get the phrase "fake it 'till you make it"? You've got to pretend like you're a big deal, until you are, at which point you're expected to vehemently insist that you're not. 

So, I've decided that until I'm rich, famous, adored, worshipped, rich, world-renowned, rich, glorified, rich and rich, 

I'll just blindly power on pretending that I'm obviously immensely popular and relevant and all things positive. 

And when I finally am all of those things - I'll go on Chelsea Lately and quip in a deep, raspy, down to earth chuckle about how silly you all were to assume that I was any different from your all-American selves. 

pants: HandM (very similar & here & here) , top: ASOS (similar) (super cool one), shoes: Nine West, watch: La Mer

I obviously have way too much mental free time. 

Cheers.

PS: If you see this, I need your sageness...
           Do you prefer le picturoonies to be the size they are today, or the size they were yesterday?