The TV Reality
15 Aug 2007
Picture these.
A pair of good friends have been there for each other. Each has their own partner and each is there to provide a listening ear. The friendship that lasted for more than a decade eventually had a turn as life events made it so. The pure platonic friendship suddenly blossomed into a comfortable romantic relationship as they each realised, to their surprise that the person whom they are looking for is just right beside them!
A wedding is planned shortly after they started dating. Afterall, who knows the other party best than himself/herself?
A much younger guy made a woman pregnant, and left her. While she is still waiting for him to change his mind (and heart) to return to her and their child, he married another woman.
The twist is this: His wife is also pregnant at the time of marriage. But the father of the child isn’t him. Does he know that? Yes he does.
Two adults who hate each other’s guts are the biological parents of a child. If they have the ability to accumulate so much hatred, how in the world do they come together to produce an offspring?
Don’t we find such scenes typical in a TV drama? Yet, if I were to tell you these are also what you can see in the real world, would you believe me?
Is this why we always say, what you see in reel life is a reflection of what happens in real life.
At times such stories leave me in awe, till now it still does.
I wonder how do you relate the events in your life to the lives of the characters you watch in those TV dramas?
I wonder too how you apply the lessons learnt by those TV drama characters to your own life, and those people around you?
Life is like a movie. You are the director, so make the most of it and produce an award-winning one.
Would you consider that?


3 Responses
2007 Aug 16
life is like a movie indeed..it can be a lot of drama..more like a soap opera at times..it has suspence..thrill..love..all sorts of stages.
2007 Aug 17
That’s right Al. And don’t we just hate the kind of suspense we’re being put through while watching the drama, only to be “pleased” with an almost predictable anti-climax kind of ending?
Well then again, life is what we make it out to be, isn’t it? So it’s all up to us too to spice up the ending and make it more dramatic than what it originally was!
Thanks for dropping by
2007 Aug 18
All the world’s a stage, and its people – the actors