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I don't know why I keep watching it. It makes me feel... somehow ill, after all. Maybe my secret, sub-concious goal is to learn about dating. After all, my own dating history is far from illustrious. It's far from damned near everything. it's barely existent. You could say it's non-existent, but then you'd be wrong.
regardless, on tonight's episode, one of the three girls elimiDate's herself. I find that this is always a cause for celebration. Generally, we have one guy and four girls; after all, girls fighting is better TV than guys fighting. Every once and a while, a girl may elimiDate herself. Tonight was such an instance. With three girls left, she up and decided to bail. Which is too bad, since she was the hottest of them all. And yet, maybe kudos to her, for seeing the dude as the prick he clearly was. Also, her decision to leave forced the dude to keep a **crazy** woman in the game. and I don't mean crazy in a nice, sexy way -- not at all. Rather, I mean it quite literally. In the end, therefore, kudos to you, Girl #3.
I don't know how this came up - maybe it was while watching elimiDate, though I couldn't tell you why - but I figured out just what we're all supposed to do after college. I mean, once you graduate, you're supposed to have the world at your fingers. Or fingertips. I don't quite know how the saying goes. But, like, you're told that you can do anything and everything. You want to be President? Sure, go ahead. You want to cure cancer and AIDS? you can do it! Even, you want to make decisions? you'll do great! This is the promise that our diplomas carry. We're raised since tiny little munchkins to believe that we can do anything. We're that special. We're that great. We're that precious.
But greatness and specialness and most certainly preciousness can only take us so far (usually, I would say, through elementary school). However, once you graduate from college hoping to reap all these sorts of benefits, you find that they were simply lying to you.
Which does nothing to change the fact that your post-college work will inevitably suck. For all these promises of greatness, the truth is that we should be lucky enough to merely hold the blank paper that some new person will later print his/her theory of "How to Fix Everything".
From whom shall we recieve the keys to awesomeness? the password to the land of happiness? It won't happen. Which, and completely so, isn't bad or good. Rather, it's a fact of life. And the sooner we accept that we can't 'do anything we put our mind to' the better off we're going to be. In the meantime, I'll be watching elimiDate.
xoxo,
ddm
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I don't know why I keep watching it. It makes me feel... somehow ill, after all. Maybe my secret, sub-concious goal is to learn about dating. After all, my own dating history is far from illustrious. It's far from damned near everything. it's barely existent. You could say it's non-existent, but then you'd be wrong.
regardless, on tonight's episode, one of the three girls elimiDate's herself. I find that this is always a cause for celebration. Generally, we have one guy and four girls; after all, girls fighting is better TV than guys fighting. Every once and a while, a girl may elimiDate herself. Tonight was such an instance. With three girls left, she up and decided to bail. Which is too bad, since she was the hottest of them all. And yet, maybe kudos to her, for seeing the dude as the prick he clearly was. Also, her decision to leave forced the dude to keep a **crazy** woman in the game. and I don't mean crazy in a nice, sexy way -- not at all. Rather, I mean it quite literally. In the end, therefore, kudos to you, Girl #3.
I don't know how this came up - maybe it was while watching elimiDate, though I couldn't tell you why - but I figured out just what we're all supposed to do after college. I mean, once you graduate, you're supposed to have the world at your fingers. Or fingertips. I don't quite know how the saying goes. But, like, you're told that you can do anything and everything. You want to be President? Sure, go ahead. You want to cure cancer and AIDS? you can do it! Even, you want to make decisions? you'll do great! This is the promise that our diplomas carry. We're raised since tiny little munchkins to believe that we can do anything. We're that special. We're that great. We're that precious.
But greatness and specialness and most certainly preciousness can only take us so far (usually, I would say, through elementary school). However, once you graduate from college hoping to reap all these sorts of benefits, you find that they were simply lying to you.
Which does nothing to change the fact that your post-college work will inevitably suck. For all these promises of greatness, the truth is that we should be lucky enough to merely hold the blank paper that some new person will later print his/her theory of "How to Fix Everything".
From whom shall we recieve the keys to awesomeness? the password to the land of happiness? It won't happen. Which, and completely so, isn't bad or good. Rather, it's a fact of life. And the sooner we accept that we can't 'do anything we put our mind to' the better off we're going to be. In the meantime, I'll be watching elimiDate.
xoxo,
ddm
email me
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