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Look out - here comes tomorrow!
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02 April 2002
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Look out! Here comes tomorrow!
That's when I have to choose.
How I wish I could borrow someone else's shoes.
(The Monkees - "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow")
I was watching some non-television last night. Yes, I was too lazy to turn the channel; the remote control was right next to me, but there isn’t much on anyway. I just wanted some background noise. And boy, did I get it!
Last night a new “game show” was on: The Bachelor. I was half interested in what was going on because of how ludicrous it was. I mean, really! Some guy picks his (future) wife from a lot of twenty-five women? No way!
After watching the last half of the show, I was a bit curious about all that it involved, so I went online and checked out the ABC site. I clicked onto a few of the bios of the “bachelorettes” and that of the bachelor. I couldn’t believe some of the things being said.
One of the questions that the women answered was “Why are you ready to get married now?” One of the bachelorettes answered, “Because I'm tired of dating and searching for "the one." I would like to end this chapter of my life and move on to "and they lived happily ever after."
Is she serious? I can’t believe the shallowness of such a “game”. The object is for a bachelor to choose, from a gaggle of giggling and elegant girls, his wife. Yes, he is going to go on these pseudo dates and decide which one he would like to have as his wife.
When did we start taking matrimonial obligations so lightly. Can someone really get to know another person on short group dates? Gosh, it really breaks my heart to know that it is taken so lightly. If he does propose to one of them at the end, and she accepts, do they really think that they have gotten to know each other well enough to walk down the aisle into matrimonial bliss?
I don’t know the legalities of the show, but I hope that *if* there is a proposal, there will not be any penalty for calling off the engagement (should there be a reason or need.) Yes, there’s always a chance that there will be one woman with whom he totally connects in a soul mate kind of way. Fortunately, there is no money involved like there was on that “Want to Marry a Millionaire” or whatever the thing was. Remember that? It didn’t take that couple very long to figure out that they had chosen a path that wouldn’t be easily trod.
I just have a really hard time with the premise of this show. There have been two episodes, I believe. I saw the last half of the second episode, so I am drawing my opinion on a very little foundation. In the little bit that I did see, there were a couple of girls that were really “falling for Alex” in a big way. Hello! I realize that much of the time has been edited out, but still! I just hope these adults know what they are doing.
Ya know, they are all beautiful (and he is handsome, intelligent, yada yada yada) and they are all still fairly young. I mean, really! It’s not as if they had hit the bottom of the barrel yet. The women are not old maids with no hopes of marrying. I’m sure each and every one of them could find suitable men in a less cheesy way.
I know that I’m really dumping on this show, and I really don’t need to be, but golly, it’s just hard to take. I am someone who is feeling that biological clock rumbling in the depths of my soul. I am in a place where I don’t meet a lot of people, I’m not outstanding in any way, and I’m not what I would consider to be a physically beautiful person, but even I would not submit myself to such a desperate attempt at marriage.
I do wish all the bachelorettes good luck, and I hope that they find peace with what they are doing. Perhaps some are doing it just to experience some wonderful and extravagant dates; kudos to them! I also wish the bachelor, Alex, good luck in finding his soul mate.
Now… where’s my soul mate? ;-)
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