I confess I watch reality TV shows

Yes it's true. In the weeks after my sprained ankle & not being as mobile aside from reading more I have started to watch a few Reality TV shows. Hells Kitchen is fun just because I can't imagine cooking in an upscale restuarant having drama but it does! I love it when the lead chef yells at people...it's my secret guilty pleasure. Lately I have started watching America's Next Top Model. (Because I'm watching it for the women does it make me shallow?) I have caught an episode of Big Brother and few of a show called Age of Love.

I have a facination with watching people getting kicked off a show. That's how these reality series's work. There is usually some sort of challenge or competition, maybe even a few every week and eventually the contestants are put up before a committee or a judge who says you may or may not be eliminated (followed by dramatic supsenseful music...at least in my head anyway). Then they review each person's performance or have some sort of vote and then people are kicked off the show.

The part that amazes me is how much the contestants get into what ever it is they are competeing for and how shaken up they are when they are elminated from the show. Usually people are angry or sad and there is lots of crying. It seems like many of them where eliminated for a mistake they had made or couldn't adjust and it ended up being their end. I was watching one show because I liked a particular contestant. She was eliminated and that was what happened to her. I remember during her exit interview she was crying & talking about how she knew she about her mistakes but kept making them. She mentioned she has to learn from her mistakes & grow.

It's crazy to think we live in an age where we watch other people's lives on TV for entertainment. We watch them win, lose, we watch them laugh, cry, and even leave the show they are a part of and to an extent we are a part of. For a brief span of time they get up and bare their soles on national TV for everyone to see. Sometimes I wonder how my life would be different if everyone could see it? What mistakes would I make? Would I learn from them? Am I waiting until I get on national TV to blow it and learn a lesson or am I learning right now?