Real World vs Real World?

Last night I indulged myself in my MTV obsession again. This time I went crazy with The Real World. Sometimes I wonder if I am the last surviving viewer of this show as its gotten pretty predictable at this point. Someone in this has house to hook up with someone else, there has to be an angry male, and there has to be a “chick” fight. Predictable, predictable. This year’s season is set in Sydney, Australia ans as predictable as I said it is, I find myself watching it, week after week after week. The scenes I see played out on this show unfortunately I can see played out in real life, scary or just plain realistic?

Last night’s episode revolved around Parisa and Trish basically trying to win the attention of some Australian guy. Which to me and the rest of the castmates seemed like a moot point because Trish has a boyfriend back home. But I guess that falls under the whole different area codes/zip codes/countries deal because she sure was upset when he paid any amount of attention to Parisa. Now what is the point here really? Not to mention we saw the same theme played out when Kelly Anne learns that her “boyfriend” has been seeing someone else and she gets all upset over it even though she’s been hooking up with Cohutta. This seems to be an issue of having your cake and eating it too which usually I’m an advocate for but not here.

You can’t hold people on leash, if you let somebody go you have to let them do what they want. You also can’t criticize when you’ve been doing the same thing. People can’t be expected to sit around and wait for somebody. We all have lives to lead. But this scenario is played out all too often. What do we expect, someone to pine away for us forever?

Lesson learned from the Real World, when we let someone go, we let them go. No strings attached. When we have someone we have someone, not multiple someones and if we do that, we’re asking for trouble. Something is bound to come back and bite us there. There’s lessons to be found in the strangest places and this is one of them. Maybe my obsession with reality tv isn’t so bad, then again……Who knows maybe I’m learning more than I thought. Whatever it is I’m sticking it out to see how this season ends. I can’t be expected to give up my guilty pleasures all at once now can I?