Friends, family, and neighbors called up to congratulate me. The attention was enormous. Much like when I was a highschool basketball player and would win or lose crowds with my performance and high-flying dunks.

I figure that you can react two ways to this sort of attention, one it can exhilarate you(as it did me recently) or make you very self-concsious and uncomfortable(as it did when I was a young man who did not want any attention at all.).

An interesting character occured to me (interesting to me anyway.). A person who is famous yet wants no part of it, in fact he is deathly afraid of notoriety--like a phobia. I wonder if any of you have ever heard of a character like this?