Wannabe

I've run into this as well.
From my own experience, those who achieved are typically humbled because they put their own efforts into getting there.
It's those who have not put that effort in--- the EWB's (ecstatic wannabes) is a state of mind that thrives on jealousy, bitterness, negativity and an empty existance.

Take my experience for example. Just a small one, in high school that taught me a lifelong lesson. I was a very little known student until a certain individual took interest and began to date me. This individual was part of the elite clique at school.

People whom I've never spoken to before, people I didn't know approached me as a friend and as somebody they've always known. I didn't know what to do or say, I had very little in common with some of these people. I know they weren't interested in WHO I was but what I was.

So later that year, I dropped everything. I barely knew who I was. I almost dropped out of school, except for one thing. I had always achieved things for myself before; such as good friendships that didn't require money or status quos, grades, music and athletics. I knew about the best kept secret called a "self esteem" which developed before I was "discovered".

I went onto college. Those who had that self esteem were more ambitious. Later on we were the ones who accomplished more than what was ever expected from us by our parents or our peers. We have the material things that others envy. We know what it took to get there. Not only the athletes I played with were able to keep a good head on their shoulders about it, but I also ran into good company with the quiet ones who kept their grades up and achieved later in life.

I've later found peers in my field with the same credentials who could keep a good head on their shoulders. We're not arrogant. Sure we like the labels, but when you can have these things you can look past the label and see the value you place in things around you. I'd rather have 10 good pair of jeans than one which is worth $400. I'd rather feed good friends on Sundays instead of having a new pair of shoes every week to impress people who don't care about me anyways.

After you have achieved it, there has to be a point or a purpose to what you're doing or else it will end.

The "EWB" mentality is one done for social survival- done out of fear almost. The sad part is that these cliques are some of the lonliest existances in the world, even if you're at the top.

The writer is just an Observer, who enjoys watching people. Is he a wannabe?. Its purely left for you to imagine.

Re: # 2

good point.

Saif, well he could be into PR business and he points at the cigar holding dudes but is smoking one himself as well, he talks about wannabes trying to hook up with gals and is in coversation with one himself & then ignore her calls for a month !!! gals just do not pass on thier phone numbers that easy you know !!! it takes a bit of chatter !!!

He forgot to mention where he stands among them but he did tell about one humble millioaire. what about you saif? who are you in this picture?

you could have ended this article by explaining yourself. would have been a nice balance.

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Though the author pretends to have some very strong understanding of the pretentious lot that he has discovered in high societies, but it just makes me wonder(and even giggle a bit) what was he doing in the company of these "Wannabes" all around him? Is he trying to prove that he's not a wannabe and different from them--- just as the rest of them think?

hmmm...Ok!

There's a fine line between wannabe and embracing popular culture.