Strange wording

A headline in the newspaper was shouting out to me "A new shooting star in the Union". There was a woman on a huge picture, standing on a small patch of grass, semi-surrounded by water, wearing a christmas-y red coat. So the picture looked very positive, they were reporting something positive (how good this new Union-woman was), and the headline sounded very positive too. At least initially.

It kept on bugging me "shooting star", is that really a positive description of someone? For me, of course, a shooting star is something very pretty, but extremely short-lived, falling down from the skies. I can understand if you say "she is beautiful like a shooting star", but if she is just a shooting star, I feel she has up until now been extremely high-held (in the skies), a good person, and now she is just falling. That is the only analogy I can think of, something negative, when you describe someone as a shooting star. Initially it can sound like something shooting out of a canon, going high up, becoming very good and high-held, but I must say, a shooting star is nothing like that. It is the very contrary. I wish journalists were more careful with their analogies, not only using what sounds pretty, but what actually is positive, when this is what they want to describe.

Or otherwise, I wish wordings just didn't stick in my head, bugging me, but just letting me accept that people use "shooting star" to describe a positive event. Eventhough it is an event of falling down from the skies, burning, crashing, ceasing to exist. But whatever.