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I am pretty sure that the world is sick to death of Jon and Kate, Brad and Ang, Jen and Jon. Are we really this needy for entertainment, or have we just forgotten that there is more to be had between the pages of a book - ANY book?

I write, therefore I read, a lot. What I am finding most interesting these days is the ease with which society has fallen into the trap that tells us that everything we need and want in life can be had at the push of a button, the click of a mouse, and that what the world of celebrity has is somehow a lot more glamorous than what we have! When is everyone going to grow up and realize that our lives are not so pathetic that we must vicariously live through the celebrity divorces, the happenings of what this or that reality diva is going through, and that we, even in all of our glorious boringness probably have a way better life than the celebs do? We should be more inclined to figuring out how to pull our own heads out of our butts and NOT figuring out who is more wrong - Jon, or Kate?

The sad fact is that we, as Americans, as human beings and as society at large, have just simply become too lazy to deal with much more mind stimulation than we care to admit…most of us, that is.

The problem in American society these days is that we have become so accustomed to pointing out the wrongs that we perceive as being wrong in the lives of others without first dealing with what is happening in our own lives. We are quick to see the sins of others but we are more inclined to protect and defend - even make excuses for - the sins we have committed. For some reason we are likelier to make a judgment on someone whose lives have been shown to the world in the form of reality TV than we are to fix our own irksome mental, emotional and spiritual sins! People are so ready to judge whoever Jon and Kate are, and it may be because they are going through something similar, maybe they know someone who is…maybe they just have no life. Who really knows? Gone are the days of actual dramatic television. We know too much about what is happening in the lives of strangers than we do in the lives of our own family members.

Yeah, Auntie, but sometimes it is just better that we NOT know what is happening in the lives of our family members. Sometimes not knowing is easier to deal with…

And if there is anyone who knows this lesson really well, it is me. It is hard for people to deal with me because let’s face it - I am not the nicest cat in the litter box, just the most truthful. I do things in the most unconventional manner, and there are times that I have been blamed for the most outlandish reasons that anyone would have for blaming me for whatever it is that I am being blamed for but the truth is that I really do not care. Seriously. If what is happening in your own life is not not as attractive as is slamming someone for simply being who they are, maybe you should become a little more familiar with the remote .  I can’t say “book” because if you are this needy, then you need also to sit in front of the television because you need something - or someone - to gossip about.

GOSSIP IS ONE OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS…

I don’t normally “go there” with this sort of stuff, but the truth is that I have been told, over and over again, by “good” Christians that gossip is one of the seven deadly sins. If this is the truth, then I am staying the hell away from any church that touts its members as “good” Christians, Catholics, whatever…I am pretty sure that I am allergic to being struck by lightning, to being cursed by plague, to being made unattractive and just so not as cool as I am .

We are so worried about what people think about us that we are eager to find the perceivably “bad” in others because this makes us look so, so “good.” No, it doesn’t. It makes us look needy for being better than someone else. We are not born better than anyone else, and it behooves me to know that in certain circles, in certain social networks, it is FINE that people , for one reason or another, believe that something in them that they had nothing to do with makes them better than other people. The sickest thing about this is that there are entire groups of people who feel this way.

Guys, knock it off already. You are akin to a global wedgie - a pain in the ass, if you will- and you are actually making complete fools of yourselves, if nothing more than the blind ignorance that you portray because other people are not as cool as you think you are for whatever reason it is that you think you are so friggin cool. You are not better than anyone, and you are not above anyone else. You squat on the crapper like most folks do. You make babies the same way others do (unless you are LGBT…but the baby STILL comes out the same way, okay?). You eat with your mouth, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and blood runs through your veins like it does for every other breathing human on and off the planet. You are not better than anyone, so quit already, ok?

If you do not know what you are talking about then please shut the hell up!

(Can y’all tell I have had enough of all this garbage already?)

Too many people know way too much about what other people are doing that they neglect what it is that is happening in their own lives to the point where life’s daily needs are passed up for something more exciting.

I was a housewife, but now to add to that list are freelance writer, college student, Wife of 20 years, mom to three great kids (My Way Cool Jr.’s…finally - people who fit the title of that song! Yay us!) budding PR person, stargazer, card reader, really good friend, your coolest cousin and a rock star in my own mind. I have way too much going on in my life to really care about what Jon and Kate and Brad and Ang and Jen and Jon and whomever else there is in the news and in their lives. I do not care about their lives, could not tell you about what is happening for any one of them, and frankly, this is the way that life should be for everyone. If you do not know what is going on in your own life and you know what is happening in the lives of people who can’t possibly give as much of a rat’s ass as you do about their lives…well, I would say that you are pathetic but I have already been pegged as someone who has a big mouth (thanks, goldenbearcat_girl…you suck, too). So, with that in mind, learn that there are two ways that the remote’s power button works! Needing background noise is not enough of an excuse to waste energy on a television that no one is looking at.

We need less of other peoples’ drama and more original thought

We are given, at birth, the ability to think on our own, to conjure original thought, to be all we can possibly imagine we are, and then we turn on the television and our entire existence becomes fused and muddled with that of other peoples’ lives who do not know us or care about us.  We are so interested in the pain of others that we have forgotten that we used ice cream and pot to quell our inner demons, and all that leads to is fat demons.  We waited and waited, an ate and ate, and swallowed our own feelings of resentment and self loathing, and then we had the nerve to turn on Jon and Kate and participated in our other favorite pass time - judging others.

We LOVE to judge

Judging others kind of gives us that feeling that we have somehow made ourselves much more and obviously great in comparison to others, even though our judgments may be based solely on something that is completely not related to what it is that we are judging! We should not be judging anyone, but we do and we feel like it is our right and our duty to set others straight. IT AIN’T! And you call yourselves…good…yeesh!

Good denotes that you have a tiny bit of compassion, enough so as to be able to empathize with people who you judge. Yet, that would be anyone expecting anyone else to stop and take a nice, hard look at themselves…and that ain’t gonna happen, ever, because that is just not the way the human condition works. We are raised to think that we are the most specialist person in the world. Then one day we grow up and well, there is Jon and Kate.

Forget Jon and Kate…try John and Ken

In the realms of thought beyond reality television, there is talk radio. If people are really and truly interested in what is happening in current events anymore, try talk radio. If you need to have someone to judge, try talk radio. If you want to be enthralled by the idea that there are people out there who have a life which does not include people like Jon and Kate, try talk radio.

My guys…John and Ken of KFI 640 AM fame,   are famous for making human beings do something they don’t seem to do anymore unless it includes thinking about what people who would not know you even if they were paid homage to like a human deity …care about your sorry life!

Yeah, I know…I should be nicer about it…

Nice is what everyone wants, but is what not too many people give up. So the hell with being nice. You cannot grow if everyone is kissing your ass.

Grow up.

Like, today.

In conclusion

No one in reality TV cares about what is really going on in real reality. Jon and Kate have been being guided by a director, and the rest of the beautiful rich and famous people have people who have people who write stuff for them to say. You have a life, and believe it or not, the lives you see on television are not real, no, not even the reality television stuff. No one in the world of reality television really cares about any of us.

Yup.

I said it.

Deal with it already.

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