Today, I found myself bored with my essay topic (Philosophy- Metaphysics) and found my mind wandering. I would like to clarify that I don't actually find the essay-writing as boring and tedious as I think it will be. It is like...eating an apple, I generally accept that I like apples but I don't realize how much I like them until I take that first bite. These essays are like that, after the first page and a half. The first page and a half is a lot of talking about an argument and summarizing, the last part though is when I get to argue my opinion and then provide counter-arguments and then responses to those. And I actually quite enjoy that.
But, I hadn't gotten to that part of the essay yet. So, I was kind of unfocused and talked myself into browsing YouTube a bit before I continued. Which in theory doesn't sound like a bad idea at the time, it sounds like a 'I will just clear my mind' thing, but ends up being a 'oh, look it has been two hours' thing.
So, while I was browsing YouTube I saw part of the Step-ford Wives movie, the newer one and it talks about a reality TV show called, "I Can Do Better" about how they take a married couple, separate them and pair them up with prostitutes/really attractive people and then at the end they can stay with the people or they can go back with their spouse. It called them prostitutes, but I don't know if that is actually what they were. I mean, they looked more like models. And from the prostitutes I have seen while driving through down town, they don't look like that. If they did, they probably wouldn't be prostitutes.
Anyway, I am genuinely surprised that it isn't a real show. Or rather, that there isn't something similar.
The closest I know of is "Parental Control" where parents who don't approve of who their kids are dating pick a new potential partner and then the person has to watch their girlfriend/boyfriend date them while they watch with the parents that hate them. It is pretty bad, but like a train wreck some part of me wants to watch the chaos unfold. (Though, I never understood that expression. As it is I try and avoid looking at car accidents, no matter how big because the potential gore factor alone freaks me out.)
But both this fictional show and this reality TV show bring up an interesting point for me. A point that comes up in TV shows all the time.
What does it mean to love someone?
In Grey's Anatomy, a show my mother loves a lot, there is a character who goes to her ex-boyfriend and says she loves him. He says she is engaged. And she basically responds that if he loves her, she will dump her fiance.
If she truly loved him, what would it matter if he loved her or not in whether she would call off the wedding or not? She clearly doesn't love her fiance or she wouldn't be so willing to call off the wedding. But she doesn't love her ex-boyfriend enough to call off the wedding before he says he loves her too. So, it is like she is taking that metaphor about only leaving one boat when one foot is securely on another boat seriously.
In "Parental Control" whoever it is almost always says they are in love with the person their parents hate, and yet all it takes is one date with someone else and they are willing to end that relationship?
Why? Because they feel like they can do better.
I don't know how others feel, but I don't think I would want to be with someone who seems kind of wishy-washy about the way they feel. If they were willing to dump someone they had dated for years after one date before, isn't it likely they might do the same thing again to me?
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